严复在《天演论·译例言》中提出了“信、达、雅”三者统一的观点。其中的“雅”不能被狭隘地理解为“高尚的;不粗俗的”。香港学者曾撰文提问:原文不“雅”、译文何以致“雅”?此一家之言为详界所无法接受。 后人对“雅”字的诠释不尽相同,但想根本否定它的人却很寥寥。更多的学者把他们的研究聚焦于“雅”字,目的在于如何使“雅”的标准更加宽泛合理,更加科 Yan Fu put forward the unity of “belief, attainment, and elegance” in “Tianyan Theory.” The “elegance” can not be narrowly interpreted as “exalted; not vulgar.” Hong Kong scholars once asked the author: The original text is not “elegant”, and why does the translation lead to “elegance”? The statement of this one is unacceptable for the details. Later generations have different interpretations of the word “Ya”, but people who want to negate it are very embarrassed. More scholars have focused their research on the word “Ya”. The purpose is to make the “elegant” standard more general and reasonable.