英语经典散文的鉴赏与翻译

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书籍之于人类，犹如记忆之于个人。书籍既可记录人种 之演变，亦可记载人类之发现；既有日积月累之知识， 亦不乏世代相传之经验；书籍之于人类，可描绘自然之 奇迹与美丽，于困难无助之际予以提携，于悲伤痛苦之 时施以抚慰；让困倦之时刻变为欢乐之时光，让头脑充 满丰富之想象，让心灵布满美好快乐之思想，恃此而人 可走出自我，超越自我。

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有一东方典故，言及二人：一为国王，一为乞丐。 国王夜必有恶魇，魇中成乞丐；乞丐晚必做美梦， 梦中变王子，居宫殿。国王是否泰然处之，余不敢 肯定。想象之于现实或更栩栩然。是否如此，姑且 不论，然读书时，恁可想象自己即为国王，居宫殿； 且读书乃美差之事：既可使人纵情山川，嬉戏海滩， 亦可使人遍访世之美景；既可使人除身心疲惫之虑， 亦可使人解囊中羞涩之忧。
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Books, indeed, endow us with a whole enchanted palace of thoughts. There is a wider prospect, says Jean Paul Richer, from Parnassus than from a throne. In one way they give us an even more vivid idea than the actual reality, just as reflections are often more beautiful than real nature. “All mirrors,” says George Macdonald . “The commonest room is a room in a poem when I look in the glass.”

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1文气贯通,气韵生动 英国散文翻译家Hilaire Belloc 为文学散文翻 译制定了6 条原则，认为翻译的本质是异地之 魂的复活之躯 (the essence of translating is the resurrection of an alien thing in a native body) ,强调散文的翻译不能拘泥于原文之字句, 要视段落或部分为整体。翻译要“以意译意( translate intention by intention) ”,与林语堂提 倡的翻译要“翻译要遵循行文之心理”是高度 一致的,这样可以摆脱原文字句的束缚,有利于 发挥译入语的优势。
第十四讲英语经 典散文的鉴赏与 翻译
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I.课堂互动实践： The Delights of Books 读书的乐趣


Books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. They contain the history of our race, the discoveries we have made, the accumulated knowledge and experience of ages; they picture for us the marvels and beauties of nature; help us in our difficulties, comfort us in sorrow and in suffering, change hours of weariness into moments of delight, store our minds with ideas, fill them with good and happy thoughts, and lift us out of and above ourselves.
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There is an Oriental story of two men: one was a king, who every night dreamt he was a beggar; the other was a beggar, who every night dreamt he was a prince and lived in a palace. I am not sure that the king had very much the best of it. Imagination is sometimes more vivid than reality. But, however this may be, when we read we may not only (if we wish it) be kings and live in palaces, but, what is far better, we may transport ourselves to the mountains or the seashore, and visit the most beautiful parts of the earth, without fatigue, inconvenience, or expense.
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麦考利既有财富与名望，亦有地位与权力，然 其传记曰，其一生最快乐之时光在于读书。麦 考利尝书信一封于一女童，曰：“来信收悉，内 容精彩，深表感谢。悉知汝喜好读书，且能乐 焉。余倍感欣慰，若到吾今日之年岁，汝定会 晓解，较之于馅饼与蛋糕，较之于玩具与游戏， 较之于世之名胜风景，读书之乐远胜焉。若有 人请余当史上最伟大之国王、享宫殿花园之乐， 品美味佳肴，驾华车着丽服，差数以百计之奴 仆，惟无读书之条件，余宁可弃做国王，而做 穷人，居斗室，享书无数，亦勿做厌书之国王。 ”
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Many of those who have had, as we say, all that this world can give, have yet told us they owed much of their purest happiness to books. Ascham , in “The Schoolmaster”, tells a touching story of his last visit to Lady Jane Grey . He found her sitting in an oriel window reading Plato's beautiful account of the death of Socrates . Her father and mother were hunting in the park, the hounds were in full cry and their voices came in through the open window. He expressed his surprise that she had not joined them. But, said she, “I wist that all their pleasure in the park is but a shadow 6 to the pleasure I find in Plato.”
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Macaulay had wealth and fame, rank and power, and yet he tells us in his biography that he owed the happiest hours of his life to books. In a charming letter to a little girl, he says:“Thank you for your very pretty letter. I am always glad to make my little girl happy, and nothing pleases me so much as to see that she likes books, for when she is as old as I am, she will find that they are better than all the tarts and cakes, toys and plays, and sights in the world. If any one would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces and gardens and fine dinners, and wines and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I should not read books. I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.”
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即或静坐炉火之旁，亦可遨游地球之边际；既 可翱翔斯宾塞所绘之王国：仙女婀娜群相迎； 亦可畅游弥尔顿所述之天堂：天使娓娓歌乐园。 科学、艺术、文学、哲学——人之所思、人之 所做——即或以世代痛苦换来之经验——凡此 种种，书海之中，应有尽有，享之不尽。
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一、散文的特点： 散文与小说、诗歌、戏剧并称为四大文学门类, 散文的艺术魅力源自何处? 贾平凹先生说散文 是美文,他甚至主张所有美的文字都应该被称为 散文。 现状： 相对于其它文学样式翻译的研 究,散文翻译的研究不够深入广泛。中国翻译界 对散文翻译的研究较西方为盛,然而主要是就散 文翻译的某个侧面开展的研究。刘士聪先生的 “韵味说”和高健先生“语言个性论”及“风 格可译性”研究较为系统和深入,影响广泛。散 文翻译原则散文翻译原则散文翻译原则散文翻 译原则：

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Without stirring from our firesides we may roam to the most remote regions of the earth, or soar into realms where Spenser's shapes of unearthly beauty flock to meet us, where Milton's angels peal in our ears the choral hymns of Paradise. Science, art, literature, philosophy, --- all that man has thought, all that man has done, --- the experience that has been bought with the sufferings of a hundred generations, --- all are garnered up for us in the world of books.