本文在对犹太裔美国作家艾·辛格的文学作品研究后发现,其所有作品都是由意第绪语翻译至英语,继而获得了诺贝尔文学奖。在与中国文学的对比下得出结论,翻译对于民族文学走向世界文学有着重要的意义和作用,中国文学要在世界文学中占有一席之地必须大力发展翻译事业。 After studying Jewish American writer Ai Singh’s literary works, this article finds that all his works have been translated into English from Yiddish and won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In contrast with Chinese literature, it concludes that translation has an important meaning and function for national literature to go to world literature. Chinese literature must make great efforts to develop its translation business in order to occupy a place in world literature.