所谓“分寸”,按《辞海》解释,即“适当的限度或程度”。而分寸感即恰如其分的感觉。译者在翻译中能否把握这种感觉,犹如演员在所扮演的角色中寻找感觉一样关系着创作的成败。译文一旦失去分寸,便失去忠实,进而歪曲或损害原作。因此,从这个意义上讲,分寸感是测定译者忠实原文的一条严格的法规,是衡量译品优劣的一把艺 The so-called “sense of proportion”, according to “Cihai” explanation, that is, “the appropriate limit or degree.” The sense of proportion is just the right feeling. Whether or not the translator can grasp this feeling in translating is like the success or failure of an act of creation in the same way that an actor looks for a feeling in his role. Once the translation has lost its sense of proportion, it will lose its loyalty and distort or damage the original. Therefore, in this sense, sense of proportion is a rigorous statute for determining the translator’s loyalty to the original text and is a measure of the pros and cons of the translation