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1、TranslationTheoriesbeforetheTwentiethCenturyContentsLiteralorfreetranslation?Schleiermacher’stheorizationVictoriancontroversy4.BibletranslationsMarcusTulliusCicero(106-43BC)Ciceroopposedword-for-wordtranslationandunderlinedthattranslatorsshouldnotact“asaninte

2、rpreter,butasanorator,keepingthesameideasandtheforms”.Thepopularityofatranslationrestsonitscaptureoftheoriginalstyleandforceinsteadofindiscriminaterepresentation,anditshouldnotbecountedout“tothereaderslikecoins”butbepaid“byweight”.Horacedidnotthinkitnecessaryt

3、o“worryaboutrenderingwordforword”.Hewouldrather“rendersenseforsense”.Hefavoredatranslator’sfaithfulnessandobjectedtoword-for-wordtransfer.？InthelastChineseparagraphinp.7ofthehandout,therearethreereasonsforflexiblemethodsinancientRome.Whatarethey?FlaccusQuintus

4、HoratiusHorace(65-8BC)aChristianasceticandBiblicalscholarHetranslatedGreekOldTestamentintoLatinandtheNewTestamentfromHebrewintothepopular,non-literaryLatin.Heproposedthetermsense-for-sense.“intranslatingfromtheGreek…Irendernotwordforword,butsenseforsense.”？Are

5、thereanyreasonsforthepriorityoffreetranslation?Inotherwords,howshallwejustifyJerome’sstandpointsbasedontheparagraph?(p.20)St.Jerome(342-420)SeventeenthCentury1.AbrahamCowley:Imitation?WhydidCowleydefendimitation?Whatishismajorreason?(p.24)Next>>2.JohnDrydenoft

6、enseenasthefirstsystematictranslationtheoristinthewest.Atranslatorhastherightnottocopywordforwordincasethespiritintheoriginalislost,butthedecencyoffreedomisindispensable.Atranslatorshould“entirelyandperfectlycomprehendthegeniusandsenseofhisauthor,thenatureofth

7、esubject,andthetermsoftheartorsubjecttreatedof”sothattheadaptationwouldnot“injuretheauthor”.Threecategories:p24-25verbalcopier？Servile,literaltranslation？Dancingonropeswithfetteredlegs？3.AlexanderFraserTytler(1747——1814)EssayonthePrinciplesoftranslation(1797)a

8、goodtranslation3principles:Howtotranslate??Couldweregardthethirdmaximassimilarwith严复’s“雅”？(p.26)ComparativeimportanceNineteenthCenturySchleiermacherTwotypesoftranslatorworking(p.27