您正在看的英文论文是:To Foreignize or To Domesticate。

　　Abstract1： Domesticating translation and foreignizing translation are two

　　different translation strategies. The former refers to the translation

　　strategy in which a transparent, fluent style is adopted in order to minimize

　　the strangeness of the foreign text for target language readers, while

　　the latter designates the type of translation in which a target text deliberately

　　breaks target conventions by retaining something of the foreigness of the

　　original. But what is the translation practice like in China? Do translators

　　tend to use foreignizing methods or domesticating ones? What are the factors

　　that affect their decision making? This paper tries to find answers to

　　the questions by looking into the translation of English metaphors into

　　Chinese.

　　Key words: domesticating translation; foreignizing translation; metaphor;

　　target

　　language reader

　　1. Introduction

　　"Domesticating translation" and "foreignizing translation" are the terms

　　coined by L. Venuti (1995) to describe the two different translation strategies.

　　The former refers to the translation strategy in which a transparent, fluent

　　style is adopted in order to minimize the strangeness of the foreign text

　　for target language readers, while the latter designates the type of translation

　　in which a target text "deliberately breaks target conventions by retaining

　　something of the foreigness of the original" (Shuttleworth &Cowie, 1997:59).

　　The roots of the terms can be traced back to the German philosopher Schleiermacher’s

　　argument that there are only two different methods of translation, " either

　　the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as possible, and moves

　　the reader towards him; or he leaves the reader in peace, as much as possible,

　　and moves the author towards him" (Venuti, 1995: 19-20).

　　The terms "foreignization" and "domestication" may be new to the Chinese,

　　but the concepts they carry have been at least for a century at the heart

　　of most translation controversies. Lu Xun (鲁迅) once said that "before

　　translating, the translator has to make a decision : either to adapt the

　　original text or to retain as much as possible the foreign flavour of the

　　original text" (Xu, in Luo, 1984: 315).

　　But what is the translation practice like in China? Recently I have read

　　two articles which show completely conflicting views on this question.

　　In his article entitled "Chinese and Western Thinking On Translation",

　　A. Lefevere makes a generalization based on his comparison of Chinese and

　　Western thinking on translation,

　　When Chinese translates texts produced by Others outside its boundaries,

　　it translates these texts in order to replace them, pure and simple. The

　　translations

　　take the place of the original. They function as the original in the culture

　　to the extent

　　that the original disappear behind the translations. (Bassnett & Lefevere,

　　1998:14)

　　However, Fung and Kiu have drawn quite different conclusions from their

　　investigation of metaphor translation between English and Chinese,

　　Our comparison of the two sets of data showed that in the case of the English

　　metaphor

　　the image often than not retained, whereas with the Chinese metaphors,

　　substitution is

　　frequently used. [...] One reason perhaps is that the Chinese audience

　　are more familiar with

　　and receptive to Western culture than the average English readers is to

　　Chinese culture. (Fung, 1995)

　　The above conflicting v

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