薛蟠

薛蟠也假说来上学，不过是：“三天打鱼，两天晒网”*却不见有一点进益。

Xue Pan hastened to register himself as a pupil . His school-going was , needless to say , a pretence -- “ one day fishing and two days to dry the net ” as they say -- and had nothing to do with the advancement of learning .

目前的诗坛实际上就是病句诗与薛蟠体的较量。

Faulty sentence poetry and Xue pan style are having a contest at present .

偏那薛蟠本是浮萍心性，今日爱东，明日爱西。

But Xue Pan was as fickle as water-weed which drifts EAST today , west tomorrow .

“自薛蟠父亲死后，各省中所有的买卖承局，总管，伙计人等，见薛蟠年轻不谙世事，便趁时拐骗起来”

" Moreover , since the death of Xue pan 's father , all the managers and assistants in the purveyor 's offices of different provinces had taken advantage of his youth and inexperience to start swindling "