上海译文出版社给保尔改名 from Hainan Daily
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Fanghuzhai 于 2000/06/07 22:09:01 发表在 汉英
寻求卖点还是追求精神？
上海译文出版社给保尔改名
缘于电视连续剧的播出，小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》也迎来了新一轮出版热。据
不完全统计，目前已有二十余种版本上市。其中，上海译文出版社出版的新译本
中，保尔的名字被改为“帕维尔·科尔恰金”。
这是怎么回事儿？日前，译文版《钢铁是怎样炼成的》的中文译者王志冲解释
说，“帕维尔·科尔恰金”比“保尔·柯察金”更接近人名的俄语发音。另据王志
冲介绍，他曾在1990年译过一本回忆录与特写集，书名叫《活生生的保尔·柯察
金》，这次译《钢铁是怎样炼成的》则将主人公的姓名译为“帕维尔．科尔恰
金”。
王志冲是上海作家协会会员、上海翻译家协会会员，这次重新翻译的是前苏联青
年近卫军出版社出版《尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基文集》中的《钢铁是怎样炼成
的》。该版本将过去《钢铁是怎样炼成的》中的缺憾作了弥补，增添了一份附录，
其中涉及爱情、友情、军事、经济、思想矛盾、社会状态等诸多方面，均是以前没
有发表的内容。
将“保尔·柯察金”的名字译为“帕维尔·科尔恰金”连同翻译附录，反映出译
者及出版社力求更加贴近原文的出版主旨。然而，有精通俄文的人士认为，出版社
的这种做法无非是想寻求卖点，因为我们叫“保尔”已经叫了几十年，而且“保尔
精神”已经在国内成为一个特定名词，因此无论“帕维尔·科尔恰金”如何接近于
俄语单词发音，这种纠正都是没有意义的，也注定新译不会比老翻译家梅益翻译的
《钢铁是怎样炼成的》更深入人心。
(高阳生)
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关于文学作品中的人名翻译，这里以前曾有过讨论。请进！
作者：古月 - 2000/06/07 23:08:58
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人名翻译还是要看译入语读者是否习惯。
http://www.bilinguist.com/data/hy00/messages/9023.html
名字的翻译
http://www.bilinguist.com/data/hy00/messages/6203.html
链接：人名翻译还是要看译入语读者是否习惯。
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CChinese names for American students learning Chinese
作者：Fanghuzhai - 2000/06/08 20:24:28
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It is a common practice to give foreigners learning Chinese some Chinese names. In giving names to students of foreign language, there is an ideological aspect of it. In the past, our country's Communist/Socialist ideology criticized the use of foreign names taken by some Chinese. In the recent past, there has also criticism of those Chinese who have named themselved in the Japanese style, such as Xzi3, XXlang2.
So sometimes I wonder if Chinese teachers, in assigning Chinese names to foreign students of Mandarin, are also imposing some kind of ideology on them?
But then some foreigners just love to have a Chinese name. In Canada (Toronto?), the mayor of one city has a Chinese name, so tht he can appeal to Chinese communities there.
According to the theory of colonial discourse analysis, adopting foreign names means some colonization of consciousness. Then some people are colonized involuntarily and some are voluntarily.
In the case of students learning Chinese, it is mainly the first case, since students are powerless in such situations.
One interesting case is in my just-graduated class. The ex-faculty team leader gave him a name "Mao2 Zhen4dong1", based on "Mao Zedong", and having the meaning of "revitalize the East". The student is a good student but is also ideologically not pro-Communism. He frequently wrote his name as "Mao2 Chen2dong","chen" being "zhen4" minus the hand radical. His name then means "time east".
I personally oppose the way of translating foreign names that produce something to distant to the original.
But I equally oppose retranslating Baoer Kechajin into something else, since the original name is already well-known and is more than a transliteration.
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Totally agree! Thanks!
作者：古月 - 2000/06/09 00:53:43
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“荆州区得胜街秦家巷24号”这个地址怎么翻成E文？？？
作者：11111 - 2000/06/08 13:21:06
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24 Qinjia Xiang, Desheng St., Jingzhou District
作者：Hell! - 2000/06/08 13:22:19
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