翻译研究

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Preface to the third edition

Introduction

1 Central issues

Language and culture

Types of translation

Decoding and recoding

Problems of equivalence

Loss and gain

Untranslatability

Science or secondary activity？

2 History of translation theory

Problems of period study

The Romans

Bible translation

Education and the vernacular

Early theorists

The Renaissance

The seventeenth century

The eighteenth century

Romanticism

Post-Romanticism

The Victorians

Archaizing

The twentieth century

3 Specific problems of literary translation

Structures

Poetry and translation

Translating prose

Translating dramatic texts

Conclusion

NOTES

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDIX: THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF THE SEAFARER

INDEX

《翻译研究（第3版）》总结了苏珊·巴斯内特翻译研究的主要思想。作者通过对翻译中意义的分析、不可译性、等值论等中心问题的剖析，追溯了翻译理论发展的历史，阐述了诗歌、小说及戏剧翻译的具体问题。界定了翻译研究作为一门独立学科的基本研究范畴。
《翻译研究（第3版）》初版于1980年，之后分别于1 991年和2000年再版，广为流传，成为英语国家翻译教学的入门教材。