Collecting-keeping means collecting something and then keep it. Collecting and keeping are not the same conception. Collecting comes before keeping. Speaking of collecting, the most important thing is quantity; of keeping, long-lasting. They are relatively independent and meanwhile infiltrated with each other. As a result, they formed a new cultural pattern. There are all sorts of collecting-keeping activities at all times and in all countries, which are getting more and more colorful and absorbing with time goes by. It reflects one aspect of the progress of human civilization and the multi-level social and cultural development.

A competent translator should do some research while translating, he should know something of the life and thought of the author. I’ d like to divide translator into two categories: one is impromptu or guerrilla style translator, the other is “position” translator. The latter often tends to have life-long effort to systematically translate the works of one or two foreign authors, such as Pan Jiaxun to Ibsen, Fu Lei to Balzac and Ru Long to Chekov. Besides translating, this kind of translators often does research.