中医学中“脉”与“经络”概念的源流与翻译

The Origin and Translation of "Mai" and "Jing Luo" in Chinese Medical Concepts

追溯了"脉"与"经络"概念的源流,基于"中医典籍汉英双语语料库"分析了"脉"与"经络"现有的翻译,认为meridian、channel和vessel均可用于表达"经脉"——meridian是世界卫生组织推荐的标准化译语,channel是目前西方流行较广的译语,但二者又均有不足之处:前者是二维的线,与经脉运行气血的功能相矛盾,后者一词多义,具有词义不明确性;vessel,指人体内三维的管道,是很严谨、恰当的"经脉"的对应译语,值得进一步推广应用。

This paper traces back to the origin of ＂mai＂ and ＂jing luo＂, discusses their available translations on the basis of the data from ＂Chinese-English Bilingual Corpus of Chinese Medical Classics＂, comments on different English translations of ＂jing mai＂. Meridian, the standardized translation of ＂jing mai＂, approved by WHO, indicates a two-dimensional grid and therefore is contradictory to jing-mai＇s function of moving qi and blood;channel, a popular translation of ＂jing mai＂ in the West, is a polysemy word and is not clear and definite. The authors think that ＂vessel＂ can refer to a three-dimensional tube of the human being and therefore is a strict and proper translation for ＂jing mai＂, and is worthy to be popularized in the future.