当代欧美作家中,风格朴实之冠,恐非海明威莫属。人们誉其风格为“电报式”风格:干净利落,简洁凝练。显而易见,要翻译海明威的作品,译者最重要的工作就是竭尽全力使译文再现原作的这种风格。就这一点而言,新译本《老人与海》(吴劳译、上海译文出版社1978年8月出版)不失为上乘之作。现不妨从译文中擷取两节与原文对照赏析之。 Contemporary European and American writers, the crown of simple style, fear is none other than Hemingway. People honor its style as “telegraph style”: neat, concise and concise. Obviously, to translate Hemingway’s work, the translator’s most important task is to make every effort to make the translated text reproduce the original style. In this regard, the new version of “The Old Man and the Sea” (Wu labor translation, Shanghai Translation Publishing House in 1978 August publication) is a masterpiece. Now may wish to extract from the translation of two sections and the original comparison of appreciation.