2026年8月14日 星期五

Bonnie S. McDougall杜博妮《現代中國的翻譯故事》"Translation Stories from Modern China," 回憶錄,又是文學史,更是一次思想探索之旅。它以獨特的視角,講述了現代中國文學如何跨越語言、文化和世界,並傳播到世界各地。 楊憲益 (2)。蕭伯納George Bernard Shaw received both a Nobel and an Oscar. 楊憲益卷:《奧德修紀》1979年首次面世 中文世界中最早直接從古希臘語翻譯的全譯本,有詳細導論。《中國翻譯名家自選集》中的 楊憲益卷包括荷馬史詩等 :《奧德修紀》《牧歌》《古希臘詩選》等計21萬字,有簡單的導言(1994) 。由北京的 中國工人出版社--於 1994年左右開始陸續出版的一套重要翻譯文學叢書,全套共 9 冊。

 



Bonnie S. McDougall杜博妮《現代中國的翻譯故事》"Translation Stories from Modern China,"   回憶錄,又是文學史,更是一次思想探索之旅。它以獨特的視角,講述了現代中國文學如何跨越語言、文化和世界,並傳播到世界各地。  楊憲益 (2)。蕭伯納George Bernard Shaw received both a Nobel and an Oscar.

譯者默默地塑造著不同文明之間的相互理解。在《現代中國的翻譯故事》一書中,邦妮·S·麥克杜格爾為讀者呈現了一位開創性譯者的國際生涯的珍貴第一手資料。她幾乎是偶然地在澳洲的一堂中文課上開啟了翻譯之路,從此走上了畢生追求的道路,最終進入北京大學、外國語出版社,並成為現代中國文學翻譯的中心。從與北島、陳凱歌、楊嘉怡。和楊憲益
的交往,到魯迅和徐光平鮮為人知的個人經歷,本書既是回憶錄,又是文學史,更是一次思想探索之旅。它以獨特的視角,講述了現代中國文學如何跨越語言、文化和世界,並傳播到世界各地。



Translators quietly shape how civilizations understand one another. In "Translation Stories from Modern China," Bonnie S. McDougall gives readers a rare firsthand account of the international life of a trailblazing translator. What began almost by accident—with a Chinese class in Australia—became a lifelong pursuit that took her to Peking University, the Foreign Languages Press, and the center of modern Chinese literary translation. From encounters with Bei Dao, Chen Kaige, Gladys Yang, and Yang Xianyi to the hidden personal histories of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, this is part memoir, part literary history, part intellectual adventure. A rare account of how modern Chinese literature traveled across languages, cultures, and worlds. https://ow.ly/HPbL50YZHgq 杜博妮翻譯故事





Oxford University wanted to give him a title, he humbly said that he didn't need a title before his name. When he received the Nobel Literature Prize in 1925, he naturally refused to accept the Nobel Prize. Who is this gentleman! He accepted the prize medal at the request of the Nobel Committee, so reluctant to accept the award, degree, as a worldwide recognition of his creations. But he donated the prize money. He received an Oscar in 1939. Until Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, Shaw was the only person to have received both a Nobel and an Oscar.
© In search of the fixed stars
Tried to become a writer early in life, sending novel manuscripts to publishers but no one would accept them. Frustrated, he decided to never try to be a writer anyway. In the end, he could not keep his promise, he started writing again, but not a novel, but a play. And that play brought him world fame. He is one of the greatest playwrights in the world, George Bernard Shaw, the first person in the world to win both a Nobel and an Oscar. As a child, he didn't like the study of fixed charts, exams. He was attracted to the outside world from textbooks. During his teenage years, he read many books on literature, history and philosophy at home instead of school. However, Shakespeare's plays fascinated him, he thought that one day he would become a great dramatist. His path in life did not go smoothly, due to the decline in his father's business, he took a job in a land broker's office. He works in the office, writes in the blank. He used to write regularly in newspapers, but even there no one printed his writings. Finally one day a letter was printed in a newspaper. It was the first printed writing of Bernard Shaw's life when he was fifteen years old.
He was promoted in the job, although he did not like the job very much, one day he thought that he was moving away from the real goal of his life by working. He left for London with ten pounds. Just the


FULCRUM: an annual of poetry and aesthetics

George Bernard Shaw, sketch by great Russian artist Mikhail Dobuzhinsky (Russia & US, 1875-1957). 1945. Pencil, paper. FromFULCRUM: an annual of poetry and aesthetics #2.

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用過去提到楊憲益夫婦之文紀念他倆

維吉爾《牧歌》、《農事詩》、《埃涅阿斯紀》

http://hcpeople.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_12.html

楊憲益

過去幾年一直想記楊先生
不過覺得他的書只讀過少數 就作罷
難得明報月刊肯將它全文分享
就先貼它



風輕雲淡話生涯  楊憲益先生訪談 (人物-戴 萍)

詩與散文

Allan Ramsay S. Johnson的文學俱樂部中提出很多有趣的見解
譬如說 荷馬史詩既然在"古遠"即成
那應該有樸素的散文翻譯來表現其精神(譬如說 荷馬史詩《奧德修紀》
Johnson
說法則是要欣賞它們 只能從詩體得之 (可能在1778 Good Friday之後所言)
茅盾《最漂亮的生意》:"據此道中人說,此中困難,不在得車,而在領照,不患無客,而患在缺油。"


===2006

《茶酒閒聊》品物?
不盡然!
竟然不列世說
滴酒不沾的黃永玉為 香泉 酒鬼之設計師


Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion ActII(1914)

英國小說-戲劇中的倫敦名街(12)兩座聖保羅教堂 Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)著 Pygmalion(1916. 林語堂譯『賣花女』1929)台南:關山書局印行,1967 )譯『皮格馬利翁』翻譯年代不詳)收入『外國戲劇百年精華』北京:人民文學,2005 【林語堂】 西元1895~1976)福建龍溪人,為二十世紀享…….
Pygmalion及其它 在《戴明博士四日談》第28頁中我對西洋神話Pygmalion效應及其在教育上和管理上所謂的「期望理論(Expectation Theory)即師生或主管與部屬之間會互動,前者對後者期望愈殷切,常常導致後者成就愈大。我舉了蕭伯納的《賣花女(窈窕淑女)作例。
Pygmalion in the Classroom, by Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969)(p27-c2, TNE)
Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, Pygmalion in the Classroom, New York: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, 1968. See also, 1992 revised and enlarged edition, ...Irving Press

24. Rosenthal, Robert, and Lenore Jacobson, Pygmalion in the Classroom: Teacher Expectation and Pupils' Intellectual Development, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. The findings of this study are challenged by Janet D. Elashoff and Richard E. Snow of Stanford University in Pygmalion Reconsidered: A Case Study in Statistical Inference: Reconsideration of the Rosenthal-Jacobson Data on Teacher Expectancy, Worthington, Ohio: Charles A. Jones Publishing Company, 1971.



A SARCASTIC BYSTANDER [thrusting himself between the note taker and the gentleman] Park Lane, for instance. Id like to go into the Housing Question with you, I would.

林語堂先生的對譯版注:派克路:倫敦街名,闊人及富戶聚居之處。

先生的譯本注:「公園路是倫敦有錢人的住宅區」


THE NOTE TAKER. Oh yes. Quite a fat one. This is an age of upstarts. Men begin in Kentish Town with £80 a year, and end in Park Lane with a hundred thousand. They want to drop Kentish Town; but they give themselves away every time they open their mouths. Now I can teach them—
林語堂先生的對譯版注:「現在是暴發戶的時代。人家起初在肯特城,一年八十鎊的收入,後來住在派克路,一年就是十萬。他們想擺脫掉肯特城(的口音);但是一開口就露出馬腳來了。我卻能教他們--」

先生的譯本注:「現在是個暴發戶的時代。有些人開始在堪提須鎮一年收入只有八十鎊,結果住了公園路一年掙十萬鎊。這些人都想把老地方的土音丟掉;可是每回一張開嘴就露出馬腳來了。我可能夠教這人--」

案:林語堂和先生都沒注Kentish Town 為倫敦一「郊區」:http://www.answers.com/Kentish%20town
---2005
關於

最重要的 "He saw the cities and came to know the thoughts of many men."
先生之奧德修紀 之翻譯 可能是
看到不少種族的城國
了解到他們的心腸


===2005
先 生翻譯蕭伯納(George Bernard Shaw)著的Caesar and Cleopatra【網路上有主文】 採中英對照,「另一序幕」(AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE PROLOGUE)【網路上主文稱為Act I】對話開始,許多字看似簡單,然而還是得多查辭典(用【】表示)。


Belzanor. By Apis, Persian, thy gods are good to thee.
the Persian. Try yet again, O captain. Double or quits! 隊長,再來一次。要麼輸雙份,要麼兩不欠。

Belzanor. No more. I am not in the vein. 不來了。我手氣不好。
the Sentinel (poising his javelin(標槍)as he peers over the wall). Stand. Who goes there?
They all start, listening. A strange voice replies from without.
Voice. The bearer of evil tidings.
Belzanor (calling to the sentry). Pass him.


【vein (MOOD)noun [S or U] v. tr. - 使成脈絡, 像脈絡般分佈於。日本語 (Japanese) n. - 静脈, 血管, 気質, 葉脈, 翅脈, 気分, 鉱脈。a style or a temporary mood: 兩例
The opening scene is very violent, and the rest of the film continues in (a) similar vein.
After laughing over the photo, they began to talk in (a) more serious vein about the damaging effect it could have on his career.】

【start之中文「v. intr. - 出發, 起程, 發生, 開始, 著手, 啟動v. tr. - 使開始, 開始, 發起, 引起, 創辦n. - 出發, 出發時間, 出發點, 起始, 最初」,似乎都未將A sudden and involuntary movement: bolt, jump, startle. See move/halt.和A startled reaction or movement.翻譯。】
【tiding n. - 一條新聞, 消息, 音信; (Japanese) n. - 便り】


台長 : hc
alas!A. Breton;施尼茨勒 vs史尼茨勒 ;中文緣





rl:re: 【alas!不知法文】
alas為古法語,字典解釋為 de découragement(氣餒,洩氣),意思應該是:因氣餒而感嘆。
當代法語字典未查得,不過意外地在英語字典可查得
used as an exclamation to express sorrow, grief, pity, concern, or apprehension of evil.
可譯作:「哎呀!」


這直譯的要求,可以用另外一極端例說明。先生翻譯過簫伯納的『凱撒與克莉奧佩特拉』,他說,書名也不夠通俗,但似乎無更好的辦法。萬一有人將它翻譯成『霸王與別姬』,有人想起西楚霸王,有人則想到梅蘭芳和小樓的東西。

----2004

讀 劉紹銘『一條漢子』(中國時報2004.12.10)

很早就想簡記和英籍夫人戴乃迭(Gladys Taylor)的翻譯事業(他們夫婦檔的選書,雖然多心不由己,不過苦中作樂,或許也有可觀,可惜我都沒機會讀;我看過近年大陸出版的一些他們的傳記)。不過,劉文強調「「六四」民運期間對學生的支持,可說義無反顧。」「八十九歲的老人,未知尚能飯否? 」

真正他的朋友問的方式是「尚能酒否? 」--他連回憶錄都用《漏船載酒憶當年》(參考甘陽的『將錯就錯』中之文等)。他近來寫些序。最令人懷念的是他早期的兩部筆記,後來合成『零墨新箋—譯餘文史考証集』(台灣台北的明文書局有「轉印本」,1985),最能看出其才情。





 楊憲益卷:《奧德修紀》1979年首次面世 中文世界中最早直接從古希臘語翻譯的全譯本,有詳細導論。《中國翻譯名家自選集》中的   楊憲益卷包括荷馬史詩等 :《奧德修紀》《牧歌》《古希臘詩選》等計21萬字,有簡單的導言(1994)   。由北京的 中國工人出版社--於 1994年左右開始陸續出版的一套重要翻譯文學叢書,全套共 9 冊。


《伊里亞德》與《奧德賽》是一整個文化共同創作的,而非出自「荷馬」一人之手「把荷馬視為一個人物是錯的,」。Homer:The Iliad 《伊里亞德》(The Iliad)How a translation of 'The Iliad' into modern language reinforces its relevance與《奧德賽》(The Odyssey)
---- 古希臘荷馬的話:「很少孩子能同他們父親一樣,多數要差一些,只有少數比他們父親更好。」

楊憲益《奧德修紀》《銀翹集》、《零墨新箋—譯餘文史考証集》、我與楊憲益先生交往二三事(范瑋麗)

"He saw the cities and came to know the thoughts of many men."

李小姐誤譯為「他看到了這座城市,了解了許多人的想法。」(p.18)
參考其他版本:
楊憲益先生之《奧德修紀》:「看到不少種族的城國,了解到他們的心腸。」(可能譯自希臘文)
王煥生譯為:「見識過不少種族的城邦和他們的思想」

"心腸"很可能比"思想、更好。
---- 古希臘荷馬的話:「很少孩子能同他們父親一樣,多數差一些,只有少數比他們父親更好。」
----楊憲益譯《奧德修紀‧卷二》北京:中國工人出版社,1995,頁15


在杨宪益的译本《奥德修纪》中,雅典娜等神明在对宙斯说话时,常尊称其为“闶阆之子,至高的尊神”。

其中的“闶阆”即是古希腊神话中宙斯的父亲——第二代神王克洛诺斯(Cronus/Kronos)的汉语意译或音义结合古雅译法。 [1, 2] 出自漢朝古書....

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楊憲益翻譯的《奧德修紀》(即《奧德賽》)是中文世界中最早直接從古希臘語翻譯的全譯本,於 1979年首次面世。 [1, 2, 3]

譯本特色
  • 散文體譯法:打破傳統詩歌體裁的限制,採用流暢的散文形式呈現,完美保留了史詩豐富的故事性與情節起伏。
  • 依據古希臘原文:楊憲益參考了「洛布古典叢書」(The Loeb Classical Library)中的古希臘文版進行直譯,忠實且具備高度學術價值。
  • 閱讀流暢度:兼顧了中文讀者的閱讀習慣,去除了解讀詩歌韻律時可能產生的生硬感。 [1, 2]



楊憲益卷:《奧德修紀》
作品背景
  • 原著作者:古希臘詩人荷馬(Homer)
  • 內容主題:接續《伊利亞特》與特洛伊戰爭之後,描述伊薩卡國王奧德修斯(Odysseus)歷經十年海上風浪與神魔考驗、最終返回家園的傳奇旅程。 [1, 2, 3, 4]
如果你想進一步了解,我可以為你:
  • 簡述《奧德修紀》的核心冒險故事與分卷情節
  • 介紹譯者楊憲益的生平與翻譯風格
  • 比較散文體與詩體翻譯的不同之處
請告訴我你想從哪個方向深入探討?

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中國翻譯名家自選集》是由北京的 中國工人出版社 於 1995 年 11 月左右開始陸續出版的一套重要翻譯文學叢書,全套一般認為共 9 冊。 [1, 2]
書籍特色
  • 名家匯聚:收錄了中國當代最具代表性的翻譯巨匠之代表譯作與自選評論。
  • 經典內容:涵蓋古希臘史詩、印度古典戲劇、英美現代詩歌與歐洲文學名著。
已知主要分卷與收錄書目
  • 楊憲益卷:《奧德修紀》(荷馬史詩等)
  • 葉君健卷:《阿伽門農王》
  • 趙蘿蕤卷:《荒原》(收 T.S. 艾略特、惠特曼等作品)
  • 季羨林卷:《沙恭達羅》(迦梨陀娑著)
  • 袁可嘉卷:《駛向拜占庭》(英美詩選)
  • 呂同六卷:《蒙扎修女的故事》 [1, 2, 3, 4]
如果你想尋找特定某一位譯者的卷冊或是想了解其中某一本著作的詳細收錄篇目,請告訴我,我可以為你進一步整理。

2026年8月13日 星期四

張華:余光中對夏濟安、喬志高、湯新楣翻譯的評論 2025年8月9日 ;越簡單的字越容易翻錯:談Man 的誤解

 Howard Chang

余光中對夏濟安、喬志高、湯新楣翻譯的評論
《現代漢語的西化》文摘(原文是我補上)
下面且將夏濟安先生所譯《古屋雜憶》(The Old Manse: by Nathaniel Hawthorne)摘出一段為例:
Houses of any antiquity in New England are so invariably possessed with spirits that the matter seems hardly worth alluding to. Our ghost used to heave deep sighs in a particular corner of the parlor, and sometimes rustled paper, as if he were turning over a sermon in the long upper entry,--where nevertheless he was invisible, in spite of the bright moonshine that fell through the eastern window.
新英格蘭凡是上了年紀的老宅,似乎總是鬼影幢幢,不清不白,事情雖怪,但家家如此,也不值得一提了。我們家的那個鬼,常常在客廳的某一個角落,喟然長歎;有時也翻弄紙張,簌簌作響,好像正在樓上長廊裡研讀一篇講道文——奇怪的是月光穿東窗而入,夜明如畫,而其人的身形總不得見。[夏濟安譯《古屋雜憶》]
夏濟安的譯文純以神遇,有些地方善解原意,在中文裡著墨較多,以顯其隱,且便讀者,不免略近意譯,但譯文仍是上乘的,不見“西而不化”的痕跡。
再從喬志高先生所譯《長夜漫漫路迢迢》(Long Day’s Journey into Night: by Eugene O’Neill)錄一段對話:
TYRONE: It's more than you're worth, and you couldn't get that if it wasn't for me. If you weren't my son, there isn't a manager in the business who would give you a part, your reputation stinks so. As it is, I have to humble my pride and beg for you, saying you've turned over a new leaf, although I know it's a lie! [Long Day’s Journey into Night, Act I]
你的薪水也不少,憑你的本事要不是我你還賺不到呢。要不是看你父親的面子沒有一家戲園老闆會請教你的,你的名聲實在太臭了。就連現在,我還得不顧體面到處替你求情,說你從此改過自新了——雖然我自己知道是撒謊![喬志高譯《長夜漫漫路迢迢》]
夏濟安的譯文裡,成語較多,語氣較文,句法較鬆動。喬志高的譯文句法較緊,語氣較白,末句更保留倒裝句式。這是因為夏譯要應付19世紀中葉的散文,而喬譯面對的是20世紀中葉的對白。二譯在文白上程度有異,恐怕和譯者平日的文體也有關係。茲再節錄湯新楣先生所譯《原野長宵》(My Antonia: by Willa Cather):
WINTER COMES DOWN SAVAGELY over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green tree-tops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.[ My Antonia: Book 2 Chapter 6]
隆冬在一個草原小鎮上來得很猛,來自曠野的寒風把夏天裡隔開一家家庭院的樹葉一掃而光,一座座的房屋似乎湊近在一起。屋頂在綠蔭中顯得那麼遠,而現在卻暴露在眼前,要比以前四周綠葉扶疏的時候難看得多。[湯新楣譯《原野長宵》]
三段譯文相比,夏譯不拘小節,幾乎泯滅了原作的形跡;喬譯堅守分寸,既不推衍原作,也不放任譯文;湯譯克己禮人,保留原作句法較多,但未過分委屈中文。換句話說,夏譯對中文較為照顧,湯譯對於原作較為尊重,喬譯無所偏私。三段譯文都出於高手,但論“西而化之”的程度,夏譯“化”得多,故“西”少;湯譯“化” 得少,故“西”多;喬譯則行平中庸之道。純以對中文的西化而言,夏譯影響不大——輸入的英文句法不多,當然“教唆’讀者的或然率也小。湯譯影響會大些--輸入的英文句式多些,“誘罪率”也大些;當然,湯譯仍然守住了中文的基本分寸,所以即使“誘罪”,也無傷大雅。



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陳文發問中國有本古典文學名著屬名張華

我說,非此張華,此以Alice 2書之翻譯出名

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越簡單的字越容易翻錯:談Man 的誤解

《愛麗絲)故事中最常見的翻譯錯誤是man字。這個字出現在《愛麗絲鏡中奇遇》第二章
“I declare it’s marked out just like a large chessboard!” Alice said at last. “There ought to be some men moving about somewhere—and so there are!”
她看了好一會才說:「我說,這真像個大棋盤,裡面應該有些棋子 在走動才對。啊,真的有欸!」
一般翻譯都把上面的man翻譯成「人」。金隄在《等效翻譯探索》頁97中說:「在實際語言環境中,『men≠人』的機會更要大得多,」
Man 的翻譯屬於「相對譯法」,也即要看相對的字來決定字義。例如the chessboard and men,這時的men指棋子,趙元任已正確譯為「棋子兒」。
Man在《愛麗絲鏡中奇遇》第6章又出現一次:
All the King's horses and all the King's men.
一般翻譯是「國王所有的人和馬」,書則名簡化為《國王的人馬》,根據「相對譯法」,其實這裏的man應該是「士兵」,而不是「人」。

討論 a film extra如何翻譯:(亨利埃特·達里卡雷爾,一位電影"群眾?/臨時?/背景"演員 和馬蒂斯的主要靈感繆斯

 

周杰倫(英語:Jay Chou,1979—),臺灣男歌手、詞曲作家、演員及製作人,企業家,青年美術教育者 (於2026年3月25日發行第16張錄音室專輯《太陽之子》影片廣告.....)    收藏 The Morning Session (La Séance du matin), painted by Henri Matisse in 1924,   Subject: Henriette Darricarrère, a film extra and primary muse, shown working on her own canvas.  。

The Morning Session (La Séance du matin), painted by Henri Matisse in 1924, is a famous oil on canvas from his Nice period that captures his studio routine. It depicts his model and assistant, Henriette Darricarrère, painting at an easel in the Mediterranean morning light while taking painting lessons from Matisse himself. [1, 2]
About the Painting
  • Subject: Henriette Darricarrère, a film extra and primary muse, shown working on her own canvas.
  • Setting: A bright, sunlit studio in the south of France overlooking a balcony and the sea.
  • Style: Features vibrant colors, decorative patterns, and fluid lines characteristic of Matisse's orchestrated interior scenes. [1, 2, 3]
'The Morning Session' was created in 1924 by Henri Matisse in Expressionism style. Find more prominent pieces of genre painting at Wikiart.org – best visual ...

《晨間繪畫》(La Séance du matin),亨利·馬蒂斯於1924年創作,是他尼斯時期的一幅著名布面油畫,生動地描繪了他的工作室日常。畫中,他的模特兒兼助手亨利埃特·達里卡雷爾在地中海的晨光中,坐在畫架前作畫,同時接受馬蒂斯的指導。關於這幅畫:主題:亨利埃特·達里卡雷爾,一位電影群眾?/臨時/背景演員和馬蒂斯的主要靈感繆斯,畫中她正在自己的畫布上作畫。場景:位於法國南部一間陽光明媚的工作室,透過陽台可以眺望大海。風格:色彩鮮豔,裝飾圖案豐富,線條流暢,展現了馬蒂斯精心佈置的室內場景的典型特徵。

In film, an "extra" is a background actor who has no speaking lines and performs in a silent capacity to create a realistic environment, such as a pedestrian on a street or a customer in a restaurant.