摘要
析字是根据汉字的结构特点,采用析形、析音、析义等形式,来表达情意的一种修辞手法,其类式可分为化形、谐音和衍义三种。本文以语义三角理论为框架,通过比较分析析字的英译实例,评析其得失,进而探析其翻译原则。文章指出,首先,从理论上说,翻译析字格时,译者可做些积极努力,或搭设联想,或暗示参照,尽可能再现原作的这种"巧妙",最终实现价值重构。其次,从析字格的翻译实践看,这种"趋同"原则似乎过于理想化,很多时候要想在译入语中寻找形式对应、意义相同的词语可以说几乎不可能。因此在不能求得价值重构的情况下,译者只要能将原文中蕴含的析字意图或特定思想传达出来,而不必强求形式对应,这也就等于接近忠实于原文。
Character-disassembling, which breaks a Chinese character down to its formal, phonetic, or semantic components in order to produce special emotional or stylistic effects, is a rhetorical device unique to Chinese. As such, it poses a special challenge to C/ E translation. In its search of useful guidelines for rendering this special device into English, this paper utilizes the Ogden-Richards Triangle Theory of meaning and arrives at a number of conclusions. It maintains that with some necessary hints or clues being implanted in the target text, character-disassembling can be reproduced in the translation. Yet the differences between Chinese and English make it almost impossible to find an equivalent expression for this figure in the target language. In most cases, therefore, the reproduction of character-disassembling will be limited to the transmission of its implied thought or meaning rather than its formal features.
出处
《中国翻译》
CSSCI
北大核心
2006年第3期39-42,共4页
Chinese Translators Journal
关键词
汉语析字
奥格登—瑞查兹语义三角理论
英译
翻译原则
结构特点
Chinese character-disassembling
Ogden-Richards Triangle Theory
C/E translation
translation guideline
