翻译研究要关注现实的重大问题,要走出象牙塔,发挥翻译活动在现实政治经济文化生活中的作用,认识翻译在多元文化语境下的使命。包括中央文献在内的外宣翻译研究是近年来在国内新兴的翻译研究方向,并且是具有中国特色的汉译外翻译研究。本专栏的开设是和我国翻译研究的发展趋势相吻合的,也是和天津外国语大学的 Translation studies should pay attention to the major issues in reality, get out of the ivory tower, give full play to the role of translation activities in real political, economic and cultural life, and recognize the mission of translation in a multicultural context. The research on foreign propaganda translation including the central documents is a new direction of translation studies in China in recent years and is a translation study of Chinese-foreign-translations with Chinese characteristics. The opening of this column is consistent with the development trend of translation studies in our country and is also in line with the