最初的模样我在一本书里见到这张图,图下注明:这是上海的英国领事馆——它最原始的样子。如今,它是外滩保留下来的最早的东印度公司式样的洋房。那房子,两层楼高,有宽大的外廊,有坡顶,栏杆在阳光下泛出新鲜的白色。要过许多年,中国青年到欧洲去学了建筑,才发现外滩的房子并不是欧洲的式样,而是来东方进行贸易的东印度公司商人发明的式样。想起来看过的另一张照片,是在马来西亚的槟城拍摄的,十九世纪中叶。 The initial appearance I see this picture in a book, the figure states: This is the British consulate in Shanghai - it is the most primitive look. Today, it is the earliest East Indian company-style bungalow ever preserved in the Bund. The house, two floors high, with a large veranda, a sloping roof, railing in the sun under the fresh white. It will take many years for Chinese youth to go to Europe to study architecture before discovering that the house on the Bund is not of European style but rather of the invention of the merchants of East Indian companies who trade in the East. Another picture that I have seen before is taken in Penang, Malaysia, in the mid-nineteenth century.