新中国高级翻译人才培养的早期探索和启示——以北京外国语大学翻译班为案例

BFSU’s Mid-20th Century“Translation Classes”and China’s Early Attempt at Training High-Caliber Translators and Interpreters

1958年,根据《培养高级翻译的十年规划》,北京外国语大学的俄、英、法、西等语系开始举办翻译班,培养服务于新中国外交需求的高级翻译人才。本文利用档案史料,回顾举办翻译班的时代背景、培养目标、培养过程以及生源和师资情况,并总结翻译班培养模式留下的重要经验。本文认为,翻译班对今日我国高级翻译人才培养的启示体现在翻译人才培养与国家战略息息相关、明确区分外语教学和翻译教学、探索和创新翻译教学模式,以及通过高质量生源和高水平师资保障培养质量。

In 1958,in line with Beijing Foreign Studies University’s“Ten-Year-Plan for Training High-Caliber Translators and Interpreters”,its Russian,English,French and Spanish departments began to offer Translation Classes to trainees for China’s diplomatic services.Based on an archival research,this paper explores those classes’historical background,pedagogical goal,training process,as well as their faculty and student body.The findings show that the training model these classes adopted then,because of its overriding goal to serve China’s national strategies,its clear differentiation between foreign language acquisition and translator and interpreter training,its constant pursuit of pedagogical innovations and excellence,remains to a certain extent adoptable for today’s translator/interpreter training programs.