海陶玮英译《陶潜诗集》的新变与影响

The New Changes and Influences of Hightower’s Translation of Poetry of Tao Qian

二战后50年代开始,北美汉学界对陶渊明诗文的翻译研究迎来高潮,先后有多部陶诗全译本出现,在这些全译本中,汉学家海陶玮所译《陶潜诗集》成就突出,成为西方英语世界的经典之作,影响深远。海陶玮的陶潜研究具有鲜明的个性特点,他翻译的陶诗更加贴近陶潜原意,比之前译文更为准确;他除了采用中西融合的方式研究陶诗外,还注重以译评结合的形式揭示陶诗用典,在翻译的准确性与理解的深刻性方面,都使陶渊明诗文的英译传播达到了一个全新高度。

Since the 1950 s,the study on Tao Yuanming’s poetry in the sinological circle of North America had reached a climax.Many complete translation versions of Tao poetry appeared.Among these complete versions,Hightower made outstanding achievements.Hightower’s research on Tao Qian has distinct personal characteristics.His translated poems are faithful to Tao Qian’s original meaning and more accurate than the previous ones;In addition to studying Tao’s poetry with the integrating methods of China and the west,he also paid attention to revealing the allusions of Tao’s poetry in the form of the combination of translation and comments.In terms of the accuracy of translation and the profundity of understanding,his translation and research of Tao Yuanming’s poetry made the spread of Tao’s works reach a new height in the English world.