谈理学、理科和科学的英译

A Discussion of the Concepts and Translation of Lǐxué,Lǐkē and Kēxué

理学、理科和科学乃日常用语以及科技术语中既相互联系又相互区别的三个常用术语。然而,在汉译英时,人们往往将这三个概念不加区别地译作"science"。本文拟从术语规范化视野率先对三个术语进行界定并尝试构建相应的译法,同时提出了术语汉译方面的一些观点。

From the perspective of language logic,the terms of lǐxué,lǐkē and kēxué in Chinese are three overlapping concepts,which are closely related to yet different from each other.However,when they are translated into English,they are indiscriminately rendered into ＂science＂.The present paper intends to define the three terms and then brings up respective translations for these terms,making some propositions on Chinese translation of terminology.