从主题对等与效果对等角度重评林译《黑奴吁天录》

A Comment on Lin Shu′s Version of Uncle Tom′s Cabin from Perspectives of Equivalence on Theme and Effect

评价译作应跳出仅考虑语言形式对等这一藩篱,更多地考虑译作产生的时代背景和译者目的等,考察译作的主题意义和所引起的社会影响即效果与原作是否达到真正的对等。以林纾、魏易译作《黑奴吁天录》为分析文本,从主题对等和效果对等角度阐述对翻译对等的新的思考。

When making a comment on a translation work,people traditionally use "equivalence" as the effective standard,the former of which usually denotes the correspondence in lexicon and grammar between the source and target languages.The writer of this essay holds that the social and cultural background as well as the translator′s translation purpose should also be taken into consideration.In other words,a translation work should reach the equivalence to the original work in the aspects of theme and effect.As a re...