从“三美论”看《葬花吟》的七种英译本

On the Seven English Versions of Elegy on Flowers from"Three Kinds of Beauty"

《葬花吟》是曹雪芹在《红楼梦》中为主人公林黛玉感叹身世遭遇而写的一篇重要的代表作,以其绚丽的意象、悲愤的格调、优美的文辞、铿锵的音韵传唱至今。七位英文译者在翻译过程中,再现了原诗的意美、音美、形美:注意咬文嚼字,译出了原诗的意境;注意译诗中韵的运用,再现了原诗的音美;注意使用跨行手法,转存了原诗的形美。

Elegy Daiyu. With the gorgeous image, on Flowers, a representative work in A Dream of Red Mansions, is written by elegy, she expresses the melancholy feelings about her own fate. It has been Cao Xueqin for Lin passed sad touch, beautiful diction and musical rhyme. The seven translators reproduce the down for its image beauty, musical beauty and formal beauty of the original poem in the process of translation. By careful choice of words, the artistic charm is reserved;by the use of rhyme, the musical beauty is revived;by the use of enjambment, the formal beauty is kept.