格律诗词翻译的等效探讨

长期以来,国内外翻译家、学者就中国古典诗词可译不可译、应该如何译等问题争论不休。本文从等效论的观点入手,通过对汉英两种语言在语音方面的比较,结合对《静夜思》几种不同译文的调查、分析,对以上问题做出进一步的探讨,旨在证明译者应该把更多的精力放在力争使译文与原作等效上,而非仅仅局限于两种文本的比较,以期更大程度上的忠实于原作。

A Study of Functional Equivalence in Translating Chinese Classical Poems

For a long time, Chinese and foreign translators and scholars have been consistently discussing whether Chinese classical poems are translatable and if they are, then how should they be translated. Guided by functional equivalence theory, this article attempts, through comparison of Chinese and English phonology combining the analysis of assessment on different versions of A Tranquil Night, to prove that translators should put more effort to make the translation equivalent with the original instead of just comparing the two texts, in order to be faithful to the author and the reader.