儿童文学翻译中译者的有意误译及其创造性叛逆

On Translators' Intentional Mistranlation and Creative Treason in Children's Literature

儿童文学由于读者群体的特殊性,对其译者提出了非常高的要求:译者不但要忠实原文,还必须使译作契合译入语的表达习惯、深受译语小读者喜爱。所以译者在翻译过程中,有时不得不抛开传统的仆人角色,进行有意误译,做出创造性叛逆。本文以儿童文学翻译大师任溶溶汉译《夏洛的网》为例,说明适度的有意误译和创造性叛逆是必要的,也是不可避免的。

Due to the specialty of the reader group of Children's Literature,a very high expectation is set upon its translators. That is to say,the translator has to be loyal to the original work,and at the same time,makes his version readable and lovable. So,in the process of translating,the translator sometimes has to forget his role as a servant to the original; instead,he has to carry out some intentional minstransltion and creative treason. This article takes the Chinese version of Charlotte's Web from Ren Rongrong—a master translator of Children's Literature—as a case in point to illustrate the fact that intentional mistranlation and creative treason to some degree are both necessary and indispensable.