从翻译发展的三个历史时期看翻译活动的社会属性——兼谈严复与林纾的翻译

On Social Attribute of the Translating Activity from Three Stages in the Development of Translation——Concurrently discussing the translations of Yan Fu and Lin Shu

社会变革一方面对翻译活动发展起着重要的影响作用,另一方面翻译活动的发展,又在深深的影响和改变着社会。这种翻译活动对社会的影响就是翻译活动的社会属性。正是翻译活动的社会属性使翻译由一种语言行为、学术行为转化为文化行为、社会行为,进而促进社会发展,成为社会思想文化的重要组成部分。

On one hand,the social reform plays an important role in the development of translation;on the other hand,the development of translation deeply influences and changes the society.This influence of the translating activity on the society is called the social attribute of translation.It is this social attribute that makes the translation transformed from linguistic and academic activities into cultural and social activities.This transformation has promoted the social development and has become an important pa...