牛津《书虫》系列儿童文学作品的语料库考察——以《勃朗特一家的故事》《星际动物园》为例

A Corpus-Based Study on Children’s Literature in Oxford “Bookworm” Series—Taking The Bront? Story, The Star Zoo as Examples

摘要: 由于缺乏生活阅历、身体发育尚未完善等方面的原因，阅读文学作品成为青少年积累知识、提高认知和感悟能力的重要渠道。21世纪后，随着文学研究和翻译研究领域理论的不断发展，儿童文学翻译也取得了长足进展，呈现视角多样化和跨学科的特点。本文主要研究少年期的儿童文学翻译，选取牛津《书虫》系列中的两本书《勃朗特一家的故事》《星际动物园》为对象，主要利用语料库分析软件LancsBox，从词汇、句子两个层面对牛津《书虫》3级系列的儿童文学翻译进行分析。结果发现该系列儿童文学作品，译文词汇简单，四字成语和特殊句式使用较少，翻译自由度高。但未能解决儿童文学翻译中的本质问题，即“童趣”的实现与创造。通过分析儿童文学翻译作品，有利于帮助译者更好地传递儿童文学的目的与意义，即儿童生命的成长。

Abstract: Due to reasons such as a lack of life experience and incomplete physical development, reading literary works has become an important channel for adolescents to accumulate knowledge, enhance cognition, and develop emotional abilities. Since the 21st century, with the continuous development of theories in the fields of literature and translation studies, children’s literature translation has also made significant progress, demonstrating diverse perspectives and interdisciplinary characteristics. This thesis primarily focuses on the translation of children’s literature during adolescence, selecting two books from the Oxford “Bookworms” series, namely The Brontë Story and The Star Zoo, as the objects of the thesis. The main approach involves utilizing the LancsBox corpus analysis software to analyze the translation of children’s literature in the Oxford “Bookworms” series at the lexical and sentence levels. The results show that this series of children’s literature works have simple translated vocabulary, fewer Chinese four-character idioms, and less use of special sentence patterns, allowing for a high degree of translation freedom. However, it fails to address the fundamental issue in translating children’s literature, which is the realization and creation of “Childlike Charm”. Analyzing translated works of children’s literature can help translators better convey the purpose and significance of children’s literature, that is, the growth of children’s lives.