德庇时《三与楼》重译的伦理阐释

On the Retranslation of Three Dedicated Chambers by Sir John Francis Davis from the Perspective of Ethics

英国著名汉学家德庇时于1815年最早将《三与楼》译为英文。1822年,他在初译的基础上重译该小说。与初译本相比,重译本在遣词造句及篇章结构方面显现出迥异的翻译策略,反映出译者前后在翻译伦理上发生了从存异到求同的嬗变。这一变化是译者所处特定社会历史文化背景下意识形态影响、诗学修养及自身身份共同作用的结果。

In 1815, British sinologist Sir John Francis Davis was the first to translate Chinese novel Three Dedicated Chambers into English, which was then retranslated by him in 1822. The retranslated version was totally different from the former one in terms of diction, sentence construction and text organization, reflecting that the translation ethics of the translator evolved from shelving the differences to seeking common ground in his translation activity. This was affected by the ideological elements, poetics and the translator＇s identity in a specified social and cultural background.