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关于翻译的言论 ——兼作《翻译理论入门》导言 Babel(巴别塔)的传说 　《圣经·旧约·创世记》第11章宣称，当时人类联合起来兴建希望能通往天堂的高塔；为了阻止人类的计划，上帝让人类说不同的语言，使人类相互之间不能沟通，计划因此失败，人类自此各散东西。此故事试图为世上出现不同语言和种族提供解释。 Tower of Babel The story is found in Genesis 11:1-9, and appears in the King James Version as follows: 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 重建巴别塔——翻译的作为 “巴别塔”隐喻的是一套由语言（概念、范畴）构成的“理论体系”即“理论巴别塔”；“巴别塔”之所以坍塌，根源在于其建筑材料——“砖”——实际上指的是——“语言之砖”（概念、范畴）没有“烧透”（“烧”，意指的是“交流”；“没有‘烧透’”，是由于受制于历史和现实条件的制约和限制而导致的“交流”不够造成的）即其意义在不同的个体那儿是不统一、不同一的。建造巴别塔——理论巴别塔，是人认识自己的前提；只有重建理论巴别塔，才是达成我们（你我、人与人）之间正常沟通的桥梁。 只言片语看翻译 古罗马有句谚语 “Traduttori traditori ，翻译成中文是“翻译家是叛徒”。 法国梅纳日说，翻译是“不忠的美人” （Le belles infidelles)。 Peter Newmark：Approaches to Translation，1981 Those who can write； Those who cannot， translate； Those who cannot translate，write about translation； 忠信两全？！ 信言不美，美言不信。（老子：《道德经》第十八章） Le belles infidelles.（法国：Gilles Menage，梅纳日） The beautiful unfaithful ones； The faithful unbeautiful ones。 L.G Kelly：The True Interpreter,1979 To claim that the history of the world could be told through the history of translation. Indeed，one might even assert that，without translation，there is no history of the world. George Steiner: After Babel,1976(from M.t Cicero) Si linguiarum utilis sit congnitio, interpretari utilissimum. If the knowledge of language is useful, translation is most useful. John Denham（1615—1669）英国著名诗人兼翻译家 Such is our pride，our folly，or our fate. That few，but such as cannot write，translate. * 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children bu