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《水浒传》是一部充满男权主义的古典小说，而且许多女性角色都是从反面来进行描写，如潘金莲、阎婆惜等放荡角色，而女性英雄们则都被男性化，失去了女性的柔美，单从女英雄的称呼上就能看出，如一丈青扈三娘、母夜叉孙二娘、母大虫顾大嫂。赛珍珠作为女性译者，发挥了译者的主观能动性，在尊重原文意义的基础上，对原文中的女性形象进行了一定程度的改写。 例1、那清河县里有一个大户人家，有个使女，小名唤作潘金莲，年方二十馀岁，颇有些颜色。因为那个大户要缠他，这使女只是去告主人婆，意下不肯依从。那个大户以此恨记于心，却倒赔些房奁，不要武大一文钱，白白嫁与他。 赛译：Now in the city of Ching Ho was a great family who had a slave girl whose mother’s family was surnamed Pan, and her own name was Golden Lotus. Her age was something over twenty and she was exceedingly beautiful. Because the lord of that house desired her this maid wanted to tell his wife for she would not give in to him. Then the Lord remembered this and hated her, and so he gave her a dowry and he gave her for nothing to Wu The First as wife. 沙译：Now, it happened that a wealthy family there had a maidservant by the name of Pan Jinlian. In her early twenties, she was quite pretty, and the master of the house began pestering her. Jinlian, or Golden Lotus, didn’t want him, and told his wife. He hated her so much for this that he personally provided her with a dowry and married her off to Wu the Elder, free of charge. | 
