汉语用词不忌重复而且在多数情况下必须重复,英语则避免重复。这篇译文中的突出译法是“变词不变义”:变词才能不重复以求“雅”;不变义才能忠于原文以求“信”。“千里马”一词在原文里重复六次之多,但在译文里只有第一次译为horses that run a thousand li a day,而其余各次都采用“变词不变义”的译法。 The use of words in Chinese is not to be repeated and in most cases it must be repeated. English is to avoid duplication. The prominent translation in this translation is “change the word into meaninglessness”: the change of the word can not be repeated for “elegant”; the immutability can be faithful to the original in order to “believe.” The word “Calima” is repeated six times in the original text, but in the translation only the first translation was horses that run a thousand li a day, and the rest of the translations were “transformation without meaning.”