《诗经·关雎》英译中音韵美学的比较研究  

A Comparative Study of Prosodic Beauty in English Translations of“Kwan Ts’eu”in The Book of Songs

作　　者：王丽丽[1] 郭思文 Wang Lili;Guo Siwen(School of Foreign Studies,Harbin Engineering University,Harbin 150001,China;School of Foreign Languages,Beihang University,Beijing 100191,China)

机构地区：[1]哈尔滨工程大学外国语学院 [2]北京航空航天大学外国语学院

出　　处：《外国语文研究》2024年第2期83-93,共11页Foreign Language and Literature Research

基　　金：国家社科基金一般项目“抗战时期在华美国作家的‘非虚构’纪行文本研究”(项目编号:22BZW201)的阶段性成果。

摘　　要：许渊冲提出的“音美”原则是检视我国古典诗歌英译中音韵忠实度的重要标准。本研究借助Praat软件比较分析了《关雎》三个译本(许渊冲、Legge、Pound)与原文在节奏、声音和韵式方面的音韵差异。量化统计分析结果表明:在节奏方面,三个译本音节、字数、平仄规律还原了诗歌的音乐节奏;在声音方面,许渊冲译本和Legge译本的元、辅音比例以及超音段特征(音高、音强和音长)与原文拟合度较高;此外,三个译本均通过大量的头韵、谐元音和谐辅音还原了原诗叠词和双声产生的音乐美感。通过译本的比较尝试基于数字技术的量化分析方法,探究中国诗歌英译过程中“音美”的构建,拓展诗歌的研究方法。In English translations of classical Chinese poems,the principle of“beauty in sound”proposed by Xu Yuanchong is a key criterion to examine the prosodic loyalty.This paper compares prosodic differences between the Chinese poem,“Kwan Ts’eu”,and its three English translations(Xu Yuanchong,James Legge and Ezra Pound)in terms of rhythm,sound,and rhyme with Praat.The quantitative results show that in terms of rhythm,all three translations effectively replicate the musical feature of the poem through syllables,vocabulary and tones.Regarding sound,ratio of vowels and consonants and suprasegmental features(pitch,intensity,and length)in Xu Yuanchong’s and Legge’s translations exhibit a higher degree of correspondence with the original poem.Moreover,all three translations take advantage of a large amount of alliteration,assonance,and consonance to reproduce the prosodic beauty of reduplication and alliteration in the original poem.The comparative study explores the construction of“beauty in sound”in English translation of Chinese poetry with a quantitative method,which sheds light on the extension of approaches to analyzing poems.

关 键 词：音美 《关雎》英译 节奏 声音 韵式 

分 类 号：H315.9[语言文字—英语] I046[文学—文学理论]