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《红楼梦》,作为中国人家喻户晓的一部古典名著,长达120回,于18世纪中叶由曹雪芹(1724-1763)完成。本书不仅是中国文学史上一部经典名著,而且也是世界文学宝库中一部难得的小说精品。将这样一部巅峰之作译成英文,困难之大可想而知。然而,令人欣喜的是在20世纪70年代,《红楼梦》有了两个英文全译本,分别由英国著名汉学家大卫.霍克思和我国著名翻译家杨宪益先生及夫人译出。这两个译本的翻译风格各有千秋,瑕瑜互见。本文通过对《红楼梦》两个英译本的若干译例分析,从表示概念的专有名词翻译入手,探讨了译者语言质朴、简洁、准确等不同方面的翻译特点。
A Dream of Red Mansions, a well-known Chinese classic masterpiece of 120 Chinese characters, was completed by Cao Xueqin (1724-1763) in the mid-18th century. This book is not only a classic classic in the history of Chinese literature, but also a rare novel in the world literature treasure. To translate such a peak into English can be hard to imagine. However, it is gratifying to note that in the 1970s, there were two English translations of A Dream of Red Mansions, which were translated respectively by the famous British sinologist David Hawkes and our famous translator Mr. Yang Hsien-yi and his wife. The translation style of these two versions have their own advantages and disadvantages, Yu et al. Based on the analysis of several translated versions of two English versions of A Dream of Red Mansions, this essay begins with the translation of proper nouns that expresses concepts, and discusses the translation features of the translators in different aspects such as simplicity, simplicity and accuracy.