《红楼梦》中最长一句话的英译
《红楼梦》中最长一句话是在第五十三回“宁国府除夕祭宗祠 荣国府元宵开夜宴”倒数第三段中，共用了160个汉语字符，去除16个标点符号后，总计用144个汉字。
“贾母也曾差人去请众族中男女，奈他们或有年迈懒于热闹的，或有家内没有人不便来的，或有疾病淹留，欲来竟不能来的，或有一等妒富愧贫不肯来的，甚至于有一等憎畏凤姐之为人而赌气不来的，或有羞口羞脚，不惯见人，不敢来的：因此族众虽多，女客来者只不过贾菌之母娄氏带了贾菌来了，男子只有贾芹，贾芸，贾菖，贾菱四个现是在凤姐麾下办事的来了。”
杨译：
The Lady Dowager had sent to invite all the members of the clan. // But some were too old to enjoy lively celebrations; some had no one to mind the house for them; some were bed-ridden; some envied the rich and were ashamed of their own poverty; some disliked or feared Xifeng; some were timid and unused to company, for one reason or another they would not or could not come. // Thus, large as the clan was, the only female relative to appear was Jia Cun’s mother, nee Lou, who brought her son; and the only men were Jia Qin, Jia Yun, Jia Chang and Jia Ling, all of whom worked under Xifeng.
杨译分为三年句，共用了115个英文单词。
霍译：
Although Grandmother Jia had sent invitations by word of mouth to every clansman and clanswoman residing in the city, some of them were too elderly to stand up to the noise and excitement of a party, some were unable to come because they had no one to look after the house for them while they were away, some had intended to come but were prevented from doing so by illness, some stayed away from envy of their richer clansmen or because they were ashamed of their own poverty, others because they could not stand Xi-feng, and yet others because they were so unused to company and incapacitated by shyness that they dared not come—in short, although the clan was a numerous one, for one reason or another, of all those invited the only female guest who turned up was Lou-shi, mother of Bao-yu’s former classmate, the intrepid little Jia Jun, who came bringing Jia Jun with her, and the only male ones were those who had found employment with the family under Xi-feng’s auspices and were therefore obliged to put in an appearance: Jia Qin, Jia Yun, Jia Chang and Jia Ling.
霍译用了194个英文单词，比杨译多了79个单词，是杨译的1.68倍。
