翻译刍议——忠实和改写的统一

A Rustic Opinion on Translation—The Unity of Faithfulness and Rewriting

翻译这项活动已经广泛被人们所使用,它极大地增加了世界各国之间的文化交流。毫无争议,它是一项跨语言跨文化的交际活动。但是,对于翻译是忠实于原文还是改写原文,学者则存在争议。传统观点认为,译文好坏的标准是它是否忠实于原文。这一思想比较倾向原作,因此译者也为此小心翼翼地追求忠实与对等。然而,随着翻译研究的深入,许多学者反而认为翻译就是改写,只有改写才能让译文变得符合某种社会目的。针对这一组矛盾的观点,本篇论文进行探讨,并提出翻译是忠实与改写原文的结合。把这两者相统一能让译文更加出彩。

Translation has been widely used by people. It has greatly increased the cultural exchange between countries all over the world. There is no dispute that it is a cross language and cross-cultural communication activity. However, scholars have disputes about whether translation is faithful to the original text or rewritten the original text. According to the traditional view, the standard of a translation is whether it is faithful to the original text. This idea tends to the original, so the translator also carefully pursues faithfulness and equivalence. However, with the deepening of translation research, many scholars believe that translation is rewriting. Only rewriting can make the translation conform to a certain social purpose. In view of this set of contradictory views, this paper discusses and puts forward that translation is the combination of faithfulness and rewriting. Unifying the two can make the translation more brilliant.