译者行为批评视域下《山海经》英译本分析
An Analysis of the English Translation of The Classic of Mountains and Seas from the Perspective of Translator Behavior Criticism
摘要: 中华典籍作为国学经典作品，理应成为中华文化传播的先行军，借由翻译的途径积极向异质文化推介。《山海经》是一部具有非凡文献价值的上古百科全书，因其包罗之广，内容之诡被誉为“天下奇书”。全书共十八卷，分为《五藏山经》和《海经》两个部分。该书目前已有七种语言的外译本，其中节译本占多数，而完整的英译本只有三个，吸引了各领域学者的关注。有不少学者从译者主体性、生态翻译学和关联理论等不同角度对其英译本进行研究，但少有学者从译者行为批评角度展开研究。本文在译者行为批评视域下，借助“求真–务实”译者行为连续统评价模式从“务实性求真”、“务实为上，兼顾求真”和“求真性务实”等角度对中国经典《山海经》之王宏英译本进行研究，探究译者翻译行为的动因及策略，以期在中国经典英译中找到一些切实可行且有价值的翻译策略或方法。
Abstract: As the classics of national studies, Chinese classics should be the forerunner of Chinese culture dissemination, and actively promote different cultures through translation. The Classic of Mountains and Seas is an ancient encyclopaedia with extraordinary documentary value. It is known as a “rare book in the world” because of its extensive coverage and paradoxical content. The book consists of 18 volumes and is divided into two parts: The Five Zang Mountain Sutra and The Sea Sutra. At present, the book has been translated into seven languages, of which the verse version accounts for the majority, and the complete English version is only three, which has attracted the attention of scholars in various fields. Many scholars have studied the English translation from different perspectives, such as translator’s subjectivity, ecological translatology and relevance theory, but few have studied it from the perspective of translator’s behavior criticism. From the perspective of translator behavior criticism, this paper studies Wang Hong’s English translation of the Chinese classic The Classic of Mountains and Seas from the perspectives of “pragmatic seeking of truth”, “pragmatic taking into account the truth” and “truth-seeking pragmatism” with the help of the “truth-seeking” continuum evaluation model of translator behavior, and explores the motivations and strategies of translators’ translation behavior, in order to find some practical and valuable translation strategies or methods in the English translation of Chinese classics.
文章引用：陈海靖. 译者行为批评视域下《山海经》英译本分析[J]. 现代语言学, 2025, 13(1): 322-329. https://doi.org/10.12677/ml.2025.131046

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