翻译:一种文化政治行为——20世纪50年代中国译介《牛虻》之现象透析

Translation as a Cultural and Political Act: The Gadfly in China

本文立足翻译研究中的描写方法,并结合勒菲弗尔的翻译理论,透析爱尔兰女作家艾塞尔·丽莲·伏尼契①所著的小说<牛虻>在我国20世纪50年代的译介现象,以说明翻译<牛虻>是我国当时特定文化日程下的一种独特的文化政治行为,而译本<牛虻>也成为了广泛影响译语社会中的青年一代的经典之作.

Based on the apporach of descriptive translation studies and Lefevere' s translation theory, this paper explores the phenomenon of translating The Gadfly written by Ethel Lilian Voynich, an Irish authoress in China during the 1950' s in an attempt to demonstrate that translating The Gadfly constituted a unique cultural and political act, which is enlisted in the then cultural agenda, and the translated text became a canonical work exerting a considerable influence on the Chinese youths in the target-language society.