翻译是一个涉及大脑机制的推理过程,是一种言语交际行为;翻译应该是一种三元关系:原文作者、译者和译文读者;交际的成功取决于原文作者的意图能否被译文读者所认识。基于关联理论所阐述的翻译的推理交际这一本质,分析解读出翻译等效只能是相对而言的,进一步印证了关联理论对翻译本体论和方法论的强大的解释力。 Translation is a reasoning process involving the brain mechanism. It is a verbal communicative act. Translation should be a kind of ternary relationship: the original author, the translator and the target audience. The success of communication depends on whether the original author’s intention can be translated by readers understanding. Based on the nature of translation inference theory as articulated in relevance theory, the analysis of translation equivalence can only be relative, which further confirms the strong explanatory power of relevance theory to translation ontology and methodology.