试论翻译的可译性与不可译性

翻译的可译性、不可译性取决于翻译过程中语言之间的“对等语”的存在与否。这个对等语从理论翻译角度来看是存在的 ,而从具体翻译实践角度就分三个层次 :即认知表达层次是可译的 ;文化层次是部分可译的 ;艺术层次为不可译。之所以这样分层是基于翻译中对等语所要达到在译文读者和原文读者心目中产生同样的审美意境的交际效果的理论原则

On Translatability and Untranslatability

Translatability and untranslatability depend on the existence of "equivalent language" in the process of translation. Theoretically speaking, this equivalent language exists; but in terms of translation practice, it can be divided into three levels: the cognitive expression level is translatable; the cultural level is translatable; the artistic level is untranslatable. This division is based on the principle of equivalent language that as far as the communicative effect is concerned, the aesthetic conception of the target language reader should be the same as that of the source language reader.