文学修饰性翻译的解析

文学翻译的难度高于普通技术性资料翻译。文学翻译核心在于传递原文意境，注重语言修饰，追求译文的美学效果。

举《简・奥斯汀传》中的写景英文例句：Until a bright moon lighted the road home，often after midnight.

如果按照科技文本的翻译思路，侧重客观精准，译文为：直到一轮明月照亮归家之路，经常是在半夜之后。 科技翻译追求事实精确，不需要文学修饰，不受文学审美因素干扰。

而文学翻译看重美学色彩，同样一句话，文学化译文处理为：直到明月照亮归途，这时已过夜半时分了。

文学翻译应当选用具备美学色彩的词汇，而不是一味追求字词层面精确无误。我们可以结合西奥多・萨沃里的选词论述加深理解。西奥多・萨沃里在《翻译艺术》中写道：

In this（the choosing of words）his（the translator’s）task is much harder than that of the original author.If the latter seeks a word with which to express a thought or describe an experience，he has available many words in his own language and can without much difficulty or delay choose the one that suits him best and pleases him most.The translator of the word thus chosen has to decide on the nearest equivalent，taking into consideration the probable thoughts of the author，the probable feelings of the author’s readers and of his own readers，and of the period in history in which the author lived. It follows then that at every pause the translator makes a choice；and from what has been said in our first chapter about the correspondence of words it follows that his choice is not between a number of equivalents，possibly all more or less inexact.Such a choice depends in large part on the personality of the translator，and that it is essentially an aesthetic choice can not be denied.

由此可见，文学翻译重在美学效果，不执着于字词绝对对等，甚至允许一定程度上的不对等。文学语言辞藻丰富、修饰性强，满足读者审美感受；科技文本语言质朴平实，以客观准确作为最高准则。

想要做好文学翻译，译者既需要扎实的中外文学知识储备，也必须具备深厚的语言文字表达功底。

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