《红楼梦》人名、绰号翻译与人物身份构建

The Translation of Names or Nicknames in The Story of the Stone and Identity Construction

《红楼梦》中的人名或绰号具有鲜明的隐喻意义,即人名是人物,人名是主题。霍译本基本保留了原著人名的这一特征,体现了人名或绰号对人物身份的构建功能。具体表现为人名隐喻是人物身份的标识;人物绰号是人物性格的品评;下人名字是主人身份的象征。

The names or nicknames in the original The Story of the Stone involve metaphorical meanings, which function as the manifestations of the characters or the themes. David Hawks mainly keeps this feature in his Chinese-English translation and delves into the functions of the names or nicknames in the identity construction process, which is specifically illustrated in the following three perspectives： the metaphorical meanings of the characters＇ names are the signals of their identity; the nicknames are the evaluation of the characters; and the names of those slave girls or young male servants are the symbols of their respective Ms. or Master.