No complete authorized English translation was produced at the time.

Efforts to make a complete translation started in the 16th century.

The first published complete translations were made in the 19th century.

There is no complete translation of this book in any other language.

Lin did not particularly like the first complete Chinese translation, which was done by 1941.

A complete translation of the work was not published in English until 1968.

In 2010 the first complete translation into English has been done.

In more recent times a wide range of complete translations has appeared.

This was the first ever complete translation of either poem into the English language.

This makes a complete translation of the book very difficult.