日本古典文学翻译的“前翻译”——翻译者的文字学功课

Pre-translation of Japanese Classical Literature——Translators'Training in Philology

日本现今流传的古典文学作品,很多是根据世代相传的古代写本整理出版的。将它们译成中文的时候,翻译者有必要对写本文字加以考察,熟悉文字流变,提升文字学修养,减少文字识读差错率,并纠正前人的错误,使用规范的简化字,处理好日本"国字"的翻译问题。

Today there is a large amount of Japanese classical literature which is based on the collection of hand-copied books passed on from generation to generation. In order to translate the literature into Chinese, translators should examine the words carefully and be familiar with the evolution of characters. What is more, translators should also improve their accomplishments in philology, so as to reduce mistakes in recognizing Japanese characters, correct mistakes made by predecessors, and use standard simplified words. Only in this way can they deal with the translation of Japanese characters correctly.