翻译适应选择论视角下古典散文英译策略选择
2021-06-28黄媛媛
黄媛媛
摘 要:苏轼的《前赤壁赋》一直是千古传诵的名篇,具有极高的艺术感染力,其译本对中国古典散文英译具有重要的指导意义。本文从翻译适应选择论的研究视角对苏轼《前赤壁赋》的葛瑞汉译本进行分析,重点讨论葛瑞汉在翻译生态环境下,为生成质量较高的译文,从语言维、文化维、交际维三个维度对译本做出的适应和选择。语言维采取动静转换、照应原文形式的翻译方法,文化维采取了归化的翻译策略,交际维采取了意译、运用修辞的翻译方法。
Abstract:Su Shi'sThe Red Cliff is a masterpiece that has been passed down through the ages and has a high artistic appeal. Its translation has a guiding significance for translating Chinese classical prose. From the perspective of translation adaptation and selection thoery, this paper makes an analysis of translation of The Red Cliff by A·C Graham. This paper mainly discusses Greehan's adaptation and selection from the three dimensions of language, culture and communication to produce a high-quality translation under the ecological environment of translation. In the language dimension, A·C Graham adopts the translation method of static and static transformation and being equivalent to the original form.In the cultural dimension, he adopts the translation strategy of domestication. In the communicative dimension, he adopts the translation method of free translation and using rhetoric devices.
关键词:《前赤壁赋》;葛瑞汉;翻译适应和选择论;翻译策略
Key words:The Red Cliff;A·C Graham;adaptation and selection of translation;translation strategy
1引言
《前赤壁赋》是篇辞赋,用主客问答的方式表达作者的思想与主张,讲究排比对偶,音韵感十足。这篇赋之所以长诵不衰,是因为它在文学上有两大贡献:第一,它充分彰显了了散文“形散神不散”的特质,景色的转换,情感的跳跃很频繁,但却不杂乱,从始到终都是以作者的主观感受作为线索贯穿全文。第二,《前赤壁赋》对“赋”体进行了革新,把散文和韵文的巧妙结合,是诗与文的统一。此赋记叙了苏轼贬谪黄州(今湖北黄冈)时,与朋友们月夜泛舟游赤壁的所见所感,以作者的主观感受为线索,通过主客问答的形式,反映了作者由月夜泛舟的舒畅,到怀古伤今的悲咽,再到精神解脱的阔达。
《前赤壁赋》最早英译本来自李高洁(Cyril Drummond Le Gros Clark),收录在他在伦敦出版的《苏东坡选》,后来又收录于他在上海和伦敦出版的《苏轼》译作中,并作了加注。后来又相继出现汉学家华兹生(Burton Watson)和葛瑞汉(Angus Charles Graham)的英译本。……
