论隐喻的翻译——兼评刘重德、Newmark的相关见解

On the Rendition of Metaphors and Metaphorical Expressions

隐喻的首创和使用反映出作家的创作个性和想象力,它以新颖、奇妙、鲜明的形象感染读者,具有不同寻常的认知、审美能力。在分析隐喻的本质的基础上,评估了刘重德和Newmark关于翻译中隐喻移植问题的观点,将他们倡导的隐喻翻译方法,加以比较,提出建构在“归化”基础上的五种译法。

The author argues that the use of metaphors as the most essential figure of speech applied in literature betrays the idiosyncrasy and creative imagination of its creator and/or user. With its powerful cognitive function, the metaphor expresses the reader with its novelty, subtlety, and vividness. Then the author compares and re-evaluates methods of rendering metaphors put forward respectively by two scholars, Liu Chongde and Newmark. Finally, the author tentatively recommends five rules frequently applied in literary translation, both English-Chinese and vice versa, provided that some naturalization is accompanied in the process.