Among the political leaders in Asia, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew is an especially dear friend and someone for whom I have utmost respect. Prior to attending G7 meetings as Japan's Prime Minister, I would meet with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew to gather his insight and opinions on issue facing Asia for sue as reference in the meetings. His astute observations and analysis of Asia politic are always extremely meaningful and valuable.
——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和点睛之笔总结如下，供大家参考：
1、သလို...လည္းျဖစ္သည္။在英文原文中，仅仅用一个and来表示二者的关系，但是缅文用了“既是……也是……”的表达，此处表示“他是我要好的朋友，同时也是我最为尊敬的人”。
2、ေပ是一个小词，用于动词后，表示肯定的语气，在这里为了呼应“最尊敬”，所以加上ေပ以加强肯定语气。
3、as reference in the meetings译为အစည္းအေဝး မွတ္တမ္း မ်ား အျဖစ္။
4、astute observations and analysis译为က်နေသာ ေလ့လာသုံးသပ္မွု ရိုး ရွင္းေသာ ခြဲျခမ္း စိတ္ျဖာ မွု။
5、meaningful and valuable译为အဓိပၸာယ္ ရွိလွၿပီး တန္ဖိုးလည္း ႀကီးလွ ေပသည္။