近代中国首本女子游泳译著《女子游泳训练法》研究

Swimming for Women:the First Translated Women’s Swimming Book in Modern China

民国时期著名体育家江良规所译的《女子游泳训练法》(Swimming for Women)是目前已知的国内最早的女子游泳教材。通过考察该译著的社会历史背景、译者个人生平以及文本翻译策略,发现民国时期“强身”“救国”理念是该书译介的思想背景,民国时期女子游泳运动的兴起、女子游泳教材的匮乏是该书译介的现实基础,译者江良规本人的生活经历则是内在动机。此外,江良规作为译者和体育学者的双重身份,既能合理运用各种翻译方法和策略,使行文流畅、通俗易懂,又能发挥专业特长创造性地翻译术语,勘误原文知识性错误。这种译者模式为当下的非文学翻译提供了有益的借鉴。

Swimming for Women,translated by Jiang Lianggui,a famous physical educator in the Republic of China,is the earliest known swimming book for women in China.By examining the social and historical background of the translation,the translator’s personal life and the translation strategies adopted,this paper reveals that the call for“strengthening the body”and“saving the country”during the Republic of China is the ideological background of the translation;the lack of swimming books for women is the practical need of the translation,and the translator Jiang Lianggui’s own life experience is the inner motivation of the translation.In addition,this paper finds that Jiang Lianggui,as a translator and a sports scholar,can not only reasonably use various translation methods and strategies to make the translation fluent and easy to understand,but also use his professional expertise to creatively translate the swimming terms and correct intellectual errors in the original text.This translator model provides a useful reference for the current non-literary translation practice.