论翻译的原则

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 Description of a good Translation——General Rules flowing from that description

CHAPTER 2 First General Rule： A Translation should give a complete transcript of the ideas of the original work——Knowledge of the language of the original， and acquaintance with the subject——Examples of imperfect transfusion of the sense of the original——What ought to be the conduct of a Translator where the sense is ambiguous

CHAPTER 3 Whether it is allowable for a Translator to add to or retrench the ideas of the original——Examples of the use and abuse of this liberty

CHAPTER 4 Of the freedom allowed in poetical Translation——Progress of poetical Translation in England——B. Johnson， Holiday， May， Sandys， Fanshaw，Dryden——Roscommons Essay on Translated Verse——Popes Homer.

CHAPTER 5 Second general Rule： The style and manner of writing in a Translation should be of the same character with that of the Original——Translations of the Scriptures——Of Homer， &c.——A just Taste requisite for the discernment of the Characters of Style and Manner——Examples of failure in this particular; The grave exchanged for the formal; the elevated for the bombast; the lively for the petulant; the simple for the childish——Hobbes， LEstrange， Echard， &c.

CHAPTER 6 Examples of a good Taste in poetical Translation—— Bournes Translations from Mallet and from Prior——The Duke de Nivernois， from Horace——Dr. Jortin， from Simonides——Imitation of the same by the Archbishop of York——Mr. Webb， from the Anthologia——Hughes， from Claudian——Fragments of the Greek Dramatists by Mr.Cumberland

CHAPTER 7 Limitation of the rule regarding the Imitation of Style——This Imitation must be regulated by the Genius of Languages——The Latin admits of a greater brevity of Expression than the English ; as does the French——The Latin and Greek allow of greater Inversions than the English， and admit more freely of Ellipsis

CHAPTER 8 Whether a Poem can be well Translated into Prose ？

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

Appendix

Index

1791年，英国爱丁堡大学历史学教授亚历山大·弗雷泽·泰特勒(AIexarlder Fraser Tvtler，1747—1814)在其所著的《论翻译的原则》(Essaj，，on the Principles 0，Translation)一书中提出了著名的“翻译三原则”，标志着西方译学研究从此走上了从理论推证理论的道路。故而，将《论翻译的原则》誉为西方现代译学研究的开山之作并不为过。
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