奈达(E.A.Nida)在《翻译科学的探索》(Toward a Science ofTranslation,1964)一书中把“动态对应”(dynamic equivalence)作为翻译的标准。鉴于“动态对应”常被曲解,他在《语言、文化与翻译》(Lan-guage,Culture and Translating,1993)中将之改为“功能对应”(func-tional equivalence)。所谓“功能对应”,或“动态对应”,是指翻译时不拘泥于原文的语法结构和字面意义,着重于译文读者的反应,使译文读者获 E.A. Nida used “dynamic equivalence” as the standard of translation in “Toward a Science of Translation” (1964). Since “dynamic correspondence” is often misinterpreted, he changed it to “func- tional equivalence” in “Lan-guage” (Culture and Translating, 1993). The so-called “functional correspondence” or “dynamic correspondence” refers to the fact that the translator does not stick to the grammatical structure and literal meaning of the original text, and focuses on the reaction of the target readers, so that the target reader can obtain