翻译：归化与异化的悖论

古今中外,翻译中归化与异化的论争源远流长;从崇尚归化到提倡异化,并把异化翻译当作激进地抵抗归化翻译的手段,当代译者(学者)们似乎走向了文化诗学与意识形态上的觉醒。但必须认识到的是,翻译从其本身概念内涵上看是归化与异化的悖论;归化与异化对立统一于翻译过程,它们矛盾对立但并不对抗,在实际的翻译中它们是共生互补关系。

Translation: the Paradox of Domestication and Foreignization

The discussion of domestication and foreignization in translation can be traced back to a very long time ago,home or abroad.From the advocacy of domestication to that of foreignization,and especially given the contemporary trend that foreignizing translation be employed as a means of radical resistance against domesticating translation,contemporary translators/scholars seem to have come to their cultural poetic and ideological awakening.It must be recognized,however,that in translation itself there underlies a paradox of domestication and foreignization,showing that the twin terms are not in antagonism but in antimony.In practical translating,they are symbiotic and complementary to each other.