Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore going offers rare and compelling access in to the mind of a remarkable leader and statesman. In this engaging series of new interviews, Minister Lee Kuan Yew candidly imparts his wisdom, as well as his fears, as he contemplates Singapore's role in a rapidly changing, and profoundly challenging, global society. An important addition to Lee Kuan Yew's legacy, Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truth to Keep Singapore going illuminates his conviction that a prosperous, sustainable future must be built upon the lessons of the past.
——Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going
读名著，学翻译。以上这段文字节选自《Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going》。
由于以上这段文字是引用名人的话，所以基本上属于直译，没有运用特殊的创作手法。因此，笔者将本文的重点词汇总结如下，供大家参考：
1、remarkable译为အထင္ကရ။
2、rapidly changing society译为ျမန္ျမန္ဆန္ဆန္နဲ႔ တကယ္ႀကီး ေျပာင္းလဲေနတဲ့ ကမၻာႀကီး။
3、as well as译为...ေရာ...ပါ။
4、candidly译为ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္းႀကီး။
5、a prosperous, sustainable future译为ႂကြယ္ဝခ်မ္းသာမွုနဲ႔ ခိုင္မာတဲ့ အနာဂတ္။
6、the lessons of the past译为အတိတ္က သင္ခန္းစာေတြ။
7、illuminates his conviction译为သူ႔ယုံၾကည္ခ်က္ကို မီးေမာင္းလက္လက္ ထိုးျပထားခဲ့တယ္။
关于“An important addition to Lee Kuan Yew's legacy”这一句的翻译，笔者认为并不十分贴切。你有更好的建议吗？欢迎大家留言讨论~