A Comparative Study of Chinese Translations of Tagore’s Stray Birds From the Perspective of the“Three Beauties Theory”

For more than 60 years,Mr.Xu Yuanchong has been devoted to education.He has not only made remarkable achievements in translating from and into Chinese,English,French and other languages,but has also developed his own unique concept of translation.Since 1950,he has always adhered to the“Three Beauties Theory”,believing that translation should not only rely on the original text,but also realize the“beauty of meaning”,“beauty of sound”,and“beauty of form”.Based on Xu Yuanchong’s“Three Beauties Theory”,this paper takes Zheng Zhenduo’s and Feng Tang’s Chinese translations of Stray Birds as an example to explore in depth the specifics of poetry translation theory.The study summarizes the similarities and differences between these two translations in embodying the“three beauties”,providing insights into the Chinese translation techniques of philosophical prose poems.This endeavor seeks to offer valuable insights for the comparative study of Stray Birds translations。

郑振铎与经典译本《飞鸟集》的生成

在泰戈尔诗集Stray Birds的中国传播与接受史中,郑振铎翻译的《飞鸟集》具有异常重要的地位。他所译的《飞鸟集》选译本是最早面世的中译本,在1920年代即已产生较为广泛的影响;而他1956年出版的全译本,进一步奠定了《飞鸟集》的经典地位。《飞鸟集》在Stray Birds翻译潮流中的最终胜出,与它最早面世密切相关,但也离不开商务印书馆及郑振铎在1920年代的影响力,离不开他采取的直译策略。