《论语》翻译中的东方主义情愫

Orientalism Complex in the Translation of The Analects

东方主义是西方对东方的思维模式,是西方以"利己"价值观为前提对东方进行的人为建构及话语表征,其实质是欧洲中心主义。由于西方译者深度浸染于东方主义文化价值观之中,因此在翻译《论语》这一最具东方传统文化价值观的中国典籍时,都或多或少地带有东方主义情愫。文章试图以阿瑟·威利(Arthur Waley)的《论语》英译本为例,从字词句等三个层面证明以上论断,并提出中国传统典籍应由中国译者自己来译的主张。

Orientalism is what the Orient think of the Occident in a systematic way, and it is the oriental construc-tion on the part of the Occident by means of their own values beneficial to the Occident and its nature is Euro-centrism. As to those western translators growing in the west, they are subject to the Orientalism; therefore, these translators hold orientalism complex more or less when translating The Analects. Taking Waley ’s version as an example, the author ana-lyzes the orientalism complex hidden in the version from the perspectives of word, words and sentence and, suggests that The Analects should be translated by Chinese translators.