对杨必《名利场》译本一些建议.doc

对杨必《名利场》译本一些建议摘 要：Vanity Fair well reveals the English culture in 19th century, and Yang Bis translation on Vanity Fair won a wide-spread reputation for her good job on transferring culture elements. However, due to the difference between cultures, the loss of culture elements is certain to happen during the process of translation. Adopting the domestication strategy, Yang Bi?s version of Vanity Fair is very successful in dealing with the translation of cultural elements. Yet, there are some translations arose author?s second thoughts so some suggestions come into being. 关键词：Vanity Fair；religious elements；names；social habits 中图分类号：H059 文献标识码：A 文章编号：1009-0118（2012）07-0319-02 1.On Vanity Fair Vanity Fair is regarded as Thackerays masterpiece. According to Li Funing, “Vanity Fair is Thackeray’s best novel, and it is always regarded as the best English novel between 1832 and 1848.” (李赋宁, 2001:273) The novels name originates from John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress in which there is a town fair held in a village named Vanity. Also there is a subtitle of Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero. Chen Jia commented on this as: “The subtitle indicates that the novel is concerned principally not with individual heroes but with the society as a whole, though it is also possible to interpret the phrase as meaning that there are only heroines or heroine but no heroes.” (陈嘉, 1986: 244) As a social panorama of the English upper and middle classes of the nineteenth century, this novel exposes the heartlessness and pretentiousness of the English aristocratic bourgeoisie. The story in Vanity Fair set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, mainly talked about the fates of two women named Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp. 2.On Yang Bi and Her Translation of Vanity Fair Yang Bi was born in 1992 and passed away of heart attack in 1868 at a very young age of 46. She received her higher education in Zhendan University during which her brother-in-law Qian Zhongshu was one o