亚瑟·韦利英译敦煌变文研究

On Arthur Waley's translation of Dunhuang bianwen

敦煌变文在中国俗文学史上占有特殊地位,同时也是敦煌学研究热点。亚瑟·韦利是第一位将其译成英文的翻译家,但他的贡献不仅限于首译变文,还在于他就变文的定义、作者、校注等提出了自己的观点。韦利以读者为中心的翻译策略和变文本身的特点,决定了其选材标准、翻译手段和翻译过程,同时也能很好地解释译文的删节问题。研究韦译变文,不仅可以发掘变文英译的历史,还能彰显韦利对敦煌学的巨大贡献,弥补韦利翻译研究的不足。

In the history of translating bianwen into English,Arthur Waley was the first translator who contributed the pioneering work with his insightful research on the definition,author,annotation,and etc. of bianwen. Waley's readercentered translation strategies and the characteristics of texts determine his selection criteria,approaches,even the whole translating process,which can reasonably explain the phenomenon of deletion in his translated versions. This paper focuses on Waley's translation of bianwen,which can reveal the translation history of bianwen and Waley's contributions to Dunhuang Studies.