花开两朵 各表一枝——文学翻译与非文学翻译之再思考

文学翻译与非文学翻译具有翻译活动的本质特征和普遍规律,在终极目标、翻译过程、翻译手段等方面都具有一定的共性,但它们在翻译客体、语言特征、翻译要求、读者期待和译者素养等方面存在明显的差异性。对文学翻译和非文学翻译的共性和差异进行比较和分析,必将有助于正确认识文学翻译和非文学翻译的本质内涵,更好地开展中国文化著述的外译。

Literary translation and non-literary translation both has the essential characteristics and general rules of translation activities and are similar to each other in aspects of the ultimate goal, the translation process, and translation methods. But, they, belonging to different subjects of translation, are quite different in terms of translation object, language features, translation requirements, readers＇ expectations and translators＇ quality. A comparison and analysis of literary translation and non-literary translation will certainly promote the understanding of the essential connotation of literary translation and literary translation practice, which will be useful to the translation of Chinese cultural works.