摘要
malapropism汉译的困难在于,由于英汉两种语言的不对称性,传统翻译观念中对语义对应的追求往往难以实现。《无事生非》是莎剧中该辞格出现较多的一部,历代译者在不同的历史语境与翻译观影响下做出了不同的处理。本文以“潜文本一正文”结构分析malapropism辞格翻译的基本原理,并通过比较朱生豪、梁实秋、方平以及皇家版四部译本,分析不同译本的翻译模式。在此基础上,以皇家版为例,试提出一种应对《无事生非》中malapropism修辞格的新的翻译路径,即近似成语误用与脚注的组合。
Due to the linguistic and cultural differences,it is difficult to find a Chinese semantic equivalent to an English malapropism.Of Shakespearean plays,Much Ado About Nothing is the most typical one in using malapropism as a comic device.The Chinese translators of this comedy employ different translation approaches to malapropism according to different historical contexts and translation theories.This paper tries to offer a new strategy for malapropism translation in Much Ado About Nothing by analyzing the mechanism of malapropism via the structure of“subtext-text”and making comparison of their existing translations respectively.To be specific,this new strategy that has been applied in the recent RSC version of Much Ado is using confusable idioms alongside footnotes.
