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《道德经》英文译本选读 老子与《道德经》 一、跨越时空的行旅： 《道德经》的流传与影响 西出国门之《道德经》 《老学典籍考:二千五百年来世界老学文献总目》 追寻老子的踪迹 ———《道德经》英语译本的历时描述 《道德经》在英语世界的传播与接受 在过去一个多世纪的时间里,《道德经》成为被译介得最多的中国典籍,其发行量和翻译版次大大超过了同为中国典籍的《论语》,在英语世界的发行量仅次于《圣经》和《薄伽梵歌》。 《道德经》英语世界行旅脉络分析 二、《道德经》首章英译对比欣赏 《道德经》首章英译诸本 Arthur Waley （1934/1998） Lin Yutang （1955） D.C. Lau （1963/1982） Victor Mair （1990） 1、道可道，非常道；名可名，非常名。 “The Way that can be told of is not an Unvarying Way; The names that can be named are not unvarying names.” (Arthur Waley , 1998:3) 译文二 “The way can be spoken of , But it will not be the constant way; The name can be named , But it will not be the constant name.” (Lau , D.C. ,1982: 267) 译文三 “The ways that can be walked are not the eternal Way; The names that can be named are not the eternal name.” (Mair ,Victor ,1990: 59) 译文四 “The Dao that can be told of Is not the Absolute Dao ; The Names that can be given Are not Absolute Names.” (Lin Yutang , 1955) 2、无名天地之始,有名万物之母。 “It was from the Nameless that Heaven and Earth sprang; The named is but the mother that rears the ten thousand creatures , each after its kind.” (Arthur Waley , 1998:3) 译文二 “The nameless was the beginning of the myriad creatures ; The named was the mother of the myriad creatures.” (Lau , D. C. ,1982: 267) 译文三 “The nameless is the origin of the myriad creatures ; The named is the mother of the myriad creatures.” (Mair , Victor ,1990: 59) 译文四 “The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth ; The Named is the Mother of All Things.” (Lin Yutang , 1955) 3、故常无欲以观其妙;常有欲以观其徼。 “Truly ,‘Only he that rids himself forever of desire can see the Secret Essences’; He that has never rid himself of desire can see only the Outcomes.” (Arthur Waley , 1998:3) 译文二 “Hence constantly rid yourself of desires in order to observe its subtlety; But constantly allow yourself to have desires in order to observe what it is after.” (Lau , D.C. , 1982: 267) “Therefore , Always be without desire in order to observe its wondrous subtleties ; Always h