陈寅恪的历史发现与其翻译观初探.pdfVIP

2006 年第 10 期 外 语 与 外 语 教 学 2006 , №10 　总 第 2 1 1 期 Foreign Languages and Their Teaching Serial №211 　 文化史就是翻译史 ———陈寅恪的历史发现与其翻译观初探 蔡新乐 (河南大学翻译理论研究所 ,河南开封 　475001) ( ) 　　摘 　要 :本文试图对历史学家陈寅恪 1890 - 1969 在翻译研究领域的贡献进行历史综述。陈寅恪虽被视为一位历史学 家 ,但翻译问题一直是他所关注的。他认为 ,高水准的译者具有跟伟大的学者一样的能力 ,因为二者都能够对传统重新加以创 造和改造 ,不断激活文化并使之持续发展 ,进而一代代传下去。而他们也都将翻译视为一种促动性的力量 ,一种强有力的资 ( 源。如果没有翻译 ,文化本身就不可能存在下去。因此 ,人类的文化历史首先就是翻译史。本文同时也讨论了他对法成 ? - ? 865) 这位里程碑式藏族翻译家及《几何原本》的再发现。 关键词 :陈寅恪; 翻译 ; 历史 ; 法成 ; 佛教 Abstract :This article is intended to present a historical survey of Chen Yin- ke ( 陈寅恪 ,1890 - 1969) ’s achievements in translation studies. Chen is seen as a historian ,yet problems in translation remained his concern throughout his career. In his view ,highly qualified translators have the same ability as great scholars ,for both of the two can re-create and transform cultural traditions ,thus continuing and reviving human culture and passing it on to later generations ,with translation always being a driving power and a powerful resource. Without translation ,human culture does not exist in the first place. Therefore the history of human culture is first of all the history of translation ,which always re-writes the former as a multi-cultural and post- national con tinuity by means of a single national language. This paper also discusses his reconfirmation of Chos- grub ( 法成 , ? - ? 865) as a monumental Tibetan translator ,his rediscovery of an anonymous Manchu version of the Elements of