生态翻译学“三维转换”视角下金凯筠《倾城之恋》英译本分析

An Analysis of Karen S. Kingsbury’s English Translation of Love in a Fallen City from the Perspective of the “Three-Dimensional Transformations” in Eco-Translatology

摘要: 张爱玲《倾城之恋》的语言与文化复杂性为译者构建了充满张力的翻译生态环境。本文以生态翻译学“三维转换”为分析框架，系统考察金凯筠英译本中的译者适应与选择行为。不同于既往研究的单一维度分析，本研究将语言、文化、交际三维度视为有机互动的整体，在每一维度内部建立次级分析层级，探讨译本如何在方言与修辞转换、家族伦理传递及潜台词再现中达成动态平衡。研究发现，金凯筠的翻译并非简单取舍，而是在不同维度间进行协调与补偿：语言层的归化服务于文化内涵的传递，文化信息的调适则为交际意图的显化创造条件。译本总体上实现了跨文化适应，但也伴随原文文学性与批判力度的局部弱化。本文尝试呈现三维转换作为一种协商机制的内在运作逻辑，为文学翻译批评提供一个强调系统性与动态性的分析视角。

Abstract: The linguistic and cultural complexity of Eileen Chan’s Love in a Fallen City creates a tension-filled translational eco-environment for the translator. Drawing on the three-dimensional transformations framework of Eco-translatology, this paper systematically examines the translator’s adaptive choices in Karen S. Kingsbury’s English rendition. Departing from single-dimension analyses common in prior studies, this research treats the linguistic, cultural, and communicative dimensions as an organically interactive whole and establishes sub-level analytical categories within each dimension. It explores how the translation achieves a dynamic equilibrium in the conversion of dialect and rhetoric, the transmission of family ethics, and the reproduction of conversational subtexts. The findings suggest that Kingsbury’s approach involves not straightforward trade-offs but coordination and compensation across dimensions: linguistic domestication often facilitates the conveyance of cultural connotations, while moderate cultural adjustments pave the way for realizing communicative intentions. Although the translation generally accomplishes cross-cultural adaptation, it also incurs a partial weakening of the original’s literariness and critical force. This paper seeks to illuminate the inner logic of three-dimensional transformation as a mechanism of negotiation, offering an analytical perspective for literary translation criticism that foregrounds systematicity and dynamism, and bearing methodological implications for the global dissemination of Chinese literary classics.