《茶花女》中英译本翻译对比
2021-12-08付梦阳
摘要:更值得注意的是,《茶花女》迄今为止先后出现了几十种译本,各种译本之间多少存在一些细微差异,而茶花女这一形象在不同时代也被赋予了不同的内涵。本文以林纾译本为例,同英译本对比研究其差异性,对我们翻译理解小说有一定的帮助。
关键词:茶花女,林纾,中文译本,比较研究,小仲马
引言:
《茶花女》是法国著名作家小仲马根据他的亲身经历所编写的一部小说,自小说问世后引起了巨大的轰动,迅速被译成各种版本在世界流传。在中国,《茶花女》也是一部读者最熟悉、最喜爱的外国文学名著之一,影响深远。并且自林纾等人翻译传入中国后,对后来的女性解放运动和女性文学的发展起到了不可言喻的推动作用。本文通过人物外貌描写为范例,对比分析作品的中英版本异同。有利于增进对文章更深层次的理解,有助于提高翻译技巧。
1.文段方面
林纾翻译版本中,体现了中文翻译更加注重意群的划分,尽量避免一顺儿下来,使读者读起来费功夫,难理解。
例1:
It was impossible to see more charm in beauty than in that of Marguerite. Excessively tall and thin, she had in the fullest degree the art of repairing this oversight of Nature by the mere arrangement of the things she wore. Her cashmere reached to the ground, and showed on each side the large flounces of a silk dress, and the heavy muff which she held pressed against her bosom was surrounded by such cunningly arranged folds that the eye, however exacting, could find no fault with the contour of the lines. Her head, a marvel, was the object of the most coquettish care. It was small, and her mother, as Musset would say, seemed to have made it so in order to make it with care.
译文:
的确,世间再不可能见到比玛格丽特更迷人的玉貌花容了。
她高挑的个头,身材未免苗条得过分,但是,她衣着上善于搭配,以高超的技巧稍一调解,就消除了造化的这种疏失。她那条开司米大披巾边角一直垂到地面,两侧飘逸出丝绸衣裙宽宽的花边,还有厚厚的手笼,藏住双手,紧紧贴在胸前,四周围着十分巧妙排列的褶皱,线条那么优美,再挑剔的目光也挑不出毛病。……
