晚清译著《力学课编》翻译特征探析

A Study on the Characteristics of Translation of Lixue Kebian in the Late Qing Dynasty

翻译是科学传播的生命线,对中国近代化知识转型产生了深远影响。《力学课编》是由晚清学部编译图书局于1906年出版的力学译著,是晚清典型的中国人自主翻译的西方科学著作。以《力学课编》与底本Lessons in Elementary Mechanics为研究材料,以译者翻译实践为研究对象,对比分析原文和译文差异,由此还原译者的翻译实践,再现译者的翻译思想,为理解我国近代自然知识转型提供一个微观实证案例。

Translation plays pivotal role in scientific communication,which brought far-reaching influence on the knowledge transformation in modernization of China.Lixue Kebian is a translation for mechanics published by the Book Compilation Bureau of the Ministry of Education in the late Qing Dynasty in 1906,which was a typical and representative translation book independently translated by Chinese in the late Qing Dynasty for western scientific work.Taking the original text Lessons in Elementary Mechanics and its Chinese translation Lixue Kebian as research materials and focusing on its translation practice,the differences between the original text and the translated counterpart were compared and analyzed to reconstruct the translator's translation practice and reproduce their translation ideology,hence to provide a micro-level empirical case for better understanding the transformation of natural knowledge in modern China.