文化缺省视角下英文儿童文学的汉译补偿策略研究——以《查理和巧克力工厂》为例

On the Compensation Strategies in the Chinese Translation of English Children’s Literature from the Perspective of Cultural Default—Taking Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as an Example

摘要: 文化缺省是作者与目标读者之间共享的文化背景知识在文本中的省略现象，在儿童文学翻译中尤为突出，对文本的处理效果直接影响儿童读者的理解与跨文化传递。本文以罗尔德·达尔经典儿童文学作品《查理和巧克力工厂》为研究语料，以任溶溶权威中译本为核心分析对象，从物质文化、社会文化、语言文化、价值观文化四个维度，系统梳理作品中典型的文化缺省现象及汉译困境，结合儿童文学的翻译特征，探讨直译加注、意译、文化替换、增译等补偿策略的适用场景与应用效果。本研究通过作品的深度分析，为英文儿童文学文化缺省的汉译实践提供具体、可操作的参考，也为文化缺省理论在儿童文学翻译领域的应用提供细化案例。

Abstract: Cultural default refers to the omission of cultural background knowledge shared between the author and the target readers, a phenomenon particularly prominent in the translation of children’s literature. The handling of such elements directly influences young readers’ comprehension and cross-cultural transmission. This paper takes Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as corpus, with Ren Rongrong’s Chinese translation as the primary object of analysis. It examines typical instances of cultural default and their translation challenges from four dimensions, material culture, social culture, linguistic culture, and values culture. Also, it explores the applicability and effects of compensation strategies such as literal translation with annotation, free translation, cultural substitution, and amplification, in light of the translation characteristics of children’s literature. Through in-depth analysis of the work, this paper provides practical references for the Chinese translation of cultural defaults in English children’s literature, and also offers a case for the application of cultural default theory in the field of children’s literature translation.