哲思的译渡与诗意的再生——《我与地坛》葛凯伦、陈泽平英译本研究

Translating Philosophical Contemplation, Regenerating Poetic Quality—A Study of the English Translation of Wo Yu Ditan (I and the Temple of Earth) by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping

摘要: 史铁生的长篇哲思抒情散文《我与地坛》是中国当代散文的经典之作，其英译本的翻译质量直接关系到这部作品在英语世界的传播与接受。葛凯伦(Karen Gernant)与陈泽平合作翻译的英译本收录于《Eleven Contemporary Chinese Writers》一书，是迄今最完整的英译本之一。本文从文化负载词的处理、句式结构的转换、意象系统的传递和语言风格的再现四个维度，考察该译本的策略选择及得失。研究发现，译本整体上采用归化与异化相结合的策略：文化负载词以意译为主、直译为辅；句式转换体现出由“主题凸显”向“主语凸显”的结构重组；哲思气质得到成功再现，但口语化风格的转译存在一定程度的消解。

Abstract: Wo Yu Ditan, Shi Tiesheng’s lengthy philosophical and lyrical essay, is a classic of contemporary Chinese prose, and the quality of its English translation bears directly on its reception abroad. The English version jointly produced by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping, collected in Eleven Contemporary Chinese Writers, is one of the most complete English translations of the work to date. Examining it from four dimensions—culture-loaded words, sentence structures, the image system, and linguistic style—this paper finds that the translation combines domestication with foreignization, with free translation supplemented by literal translation in handling culture-loaded words, and a structural reorganization from topic-prominent to subject-prominent patterns in sentence transformation, successfully reproducing the philosophical temperament of the original while attenuating its colloquial style to a certain degree.