从中西散文风格领略翻译方法.docxVIP

从中西散文风格领略翻译方法中国有一种散文特别具有抒情性，特别讲究文字技巧。它们固然与诗歌有区别，但是，更多相同处。例如六朝流行的赋，由于特别讲究骈偶抑扬，辞彩华丽，诗味十分浓郁。实际上在一定程度上是没有分行的诗。欧美文人的若干抒情散文也有类似的特点。在翻译它们的时候，翻译技巧也是多种多样的，与诗歌翻译技巧很多是相通的。和诗歌一样，一篇散文也可以翻译成若干种风格。下面以英国著名学者和文学家本·约翰森的的名篇《致切斯菲尔德伯爵书》为例详细探讨散文翻译的若干技巧。《致切斯菲尔德伯爵书》原文：My Lord(1)，I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World(2), that two Papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the Public(3), were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour(4), which, being very little accustomed to(5) favours from the Great(6), I know not well how to receive, or in what termsto acknowledge(7).When, upon some slight encouragement(8), I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of Mankind(9), hy the enchantment of your address; and could not forbear(10) to wish that I might boast myself Levainqueur du vainqueur de la terre(11)— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world(12) contending; but I found my attendance(13) so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer(14) me to continue it. (15)When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar(16) can possess. I had done all that I could; and no Man is well pleased to have his all(17) neglected, be it ever so little.Seven years, My Lord, have now past,since I waited in your outward Rooms, or was repulsed from your Door(18); during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain(19), and have brought it, at last, to the verge of Puhlication, without one Act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour(20). Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a Native of the Rocks(21). Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?(22) T