略评Babylon Revisited的三个译、注本

A Comparative Study of Two Translationsand One Annotated Version of Babylon Revisited

翻译基于理解原作。在文学翻译,尤其是名家名篇翻译的过程中,译者对于词义的选择应该基于上下文相关信息和客观世界的经验。只有深入理解上下文信息,才能把握原作者用词的意图。本文以Babylon Revisited 的三个中文译、注本存在的一些理解和表达的问题为例,从过程—结果的角度探讨文学翻译的过程。

It goes without saying that translation is based on the translator’s understanding of the original work. While translating literary works, especiallythe classics of famous writers, a translator’s choice of words reflects his experience of the objective world as well as his mastery of the relevant contextualinformation. Only when he has thoroughly understood the contextual information will a translator be able to guard against misinterpreting or distorting theauthor’s intended meaning. The present article adopts the process-product perspective to probe into some of the problems of interpretation and expressionfound in two translations and one annotated version of Babylon Revisited—a short story by F. S. Fitzgerald.