摘 要

随着我国对儿童教育和环境保护的重视，研究国外儿童文学的英汉翻译和环境描写的英汉翻译已迫在眉睫。本文以生态翻译学为指导，以《秘密花园》为案例研究对象，通过对李文俊和张建平《秘密花园》的译本进行比较研究儿童文学中环境描写的英汉翻译。论文主要侧重于研究两个译本对翻译生态环境的适应和两个译本的多维适应性选择,以期给出一些关于儿童文学中环境描写的英汉翻译的建议并激发儿童对儿童文学与环境保护的兴趣。本文共分为五部分。首章为绪论部分，主要介绍研究背景，目的和意义。第二章为文献综述，总结了国内外知名学者对儿童文学翻译的研究和对环境描写翻译的研究。第三章为理论框架，阐述了生态翻译论的重要观点和用它研究儿童文学中环境描写翻译的应用性。第四章是对李俊文和张建平的《秘密花园》翻译版本的从多维转换角度的对比分析。第五章是结论，总结了本研究的结果。

关键词：生态翻译学；儿童文学；环境描写；笔译；《秘密花园》

Abstract

As people in China pay more and more attention to children's education and environmental protection, it is urgent to study the E-C translation of foreign children's literature and the E-C translation of the environmental description. Under the guidance of eco-translatology, this thesis chooses The Secret Garden as an object of case study to study the E-C translation of environmental descriptions in children's literature through comparing Li Wenjun’ and Zhang Jianping’ translations of The Secret Garden, and the thesis mainly focuses on two versions’ adaptation to translational eco-environment and multi-dimensional adaptive selection of the translation so as to give some suggestions about the E-C translation of environmental descriptions in children's literature for translators and arouse children’ interests towards children’ literature and environmental protection. This paper consists of five chapters. Chapter One is introduction, mainly introducing the background, purpose, and significance of the research. Chapter Two is the literature review, which principally summarizes the researches on the translation of children's literature and the translation of environmental descriptions by famous scholars at home and abroad. Chapter Three is the theoretical framework, expounding the important views of eco-translatology and its application in the study of the translation of the environmental descriptions in children's literature. Chapter Four is a comparative analysis of Li Wenjun and Zhang Jianping's translation of The Secret Garden from the perspective of multi-dimensional transformation. Chapter five is the conclusion, which concludes the results of this study.

Key Words: eco-translatology; children’s literature; environmental descriptions; translation; The Secret Garden

Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 Literature Review 3

2.1 Previous Studies of Translation of Environmental Descriptions 3

2.2 Previous Studies of Translation of Children’s Literature 4

3 Theoretical Framework 6

3.1 Eco-translatology 6

3.2 Applicability of Eco-translatology in the Translation of Children's Literature 6

3.3 Applicability of Eco-translatology in the Tanslation of Environmental Descriptions 7

4 A Comparative Analysis of two Chinese Versions of The Secret Garden 9

4.1 Two Versions ’ Adaptation to Translational Eco-environment 9

4.1.1 Translators’ adaptations to “competence” 9

4.1.2 Translators’ adaptations to “motivation” 10

4.2 Multi-dimensional Adaptive Selection of the Translation 11

4.2.1 Linguistic Dimension 11

4.2.1.1 Lexical Level 12

4.2.1.2 Syntactic Level 14

4.2.2 Cultural Dimension 16

4.2.2.1 Domestication 16

4.2.2.2 Foreignization 18

4.2.3 Communicative Dimension 19

5 Conclusion 22

References 24

A Study on the E-C Translation Strategies of Environmental Descriptions in Children's Literature——A Case Study of Two Chinese Translations of The Secret Garden

1 Introduction

Nowadays, the trend of cultural exchanges and mutual learning is irresistible in the world. Children not only enjoy a large number of excellent domestic children's literature works, but also have access to remarkable foreign children's literature works from different cultural backgrounds, which are conducive to expanding children's horizons and adapting them to the increasingly interconnected and culturally diverse world. Under such circumstances, it is necessary to study the translation of foreign children's literature to make it more advisable for Chinese children to absorb and learn. However, the research on children's literature translation in China started later than that in other countries, and the theoretical research on children's literature translation gradually augmented since Xu Derong’ On the Translation of Children’s Literature has published in 2004. But most researches on children's literature translation took a whole book as an object. There is little detailed research on it.

In addition, in recent years, due to the progressively severe environmental pollution and resource shortage, the relationship between mankind and the environment has received extensive attention. It is of great importance to cultivate children's affection towards nature and establish the concept of environmental protection in their mind through the descriptions of the environment in children's literature, especially the descriptions of scenery, to ensure the sustainable development of China. That is to say, a special study on the translation of environmental description in foreign children's literature is imperative.

However, which theory is suitable for exploring this field? On the one hand, as Children's literature are always based on children, Professor Hu Gengshen’s theory of translation as Adaptation and Selection in Eco-translatology enable foreign children's literature better adapt to the domestic children's readers in the translation process. On the other hand, since the natural ecology of novels constituted by the description of the environment in children's literature and its translational ecology are both concerned with “ecology”, there must be certain echoes between them, which provides a novel angle to study the description of the environment. In conclusion, eco-translatology is of great guiding significance in the study of the translation of environmental descriptions in children's literature. Then, in terms of the selection of case study, as a renowned children's literature works with massive environmental descriptions, The Secret Garden, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, an American writer, which demonstrates the relationship between man and nature in various aspects, becomes an appropriate research object.

Under the guidance of the theory of Eco-translatology, this study has conducted plentiful analyses and comparative studies on the environmental descriptions in two Chinese versions of The Secret Garden from the theory of translation as Adaptation and Selection and the perspective of “three-dimensional” principles of culture, language and communication, aiming to summarize the features of the two Chinese versions and obtain the strategies and methods for the Chinese translation of children's environmental descriptions in children's literature.

2 Literature Review

2.1 Previous Studies of Translation of Environmental Descriptions

Through searching on CNKI, the author found that the earliest research on the E-C translation of environmental descriptions appeared in the journal article "the translation of the description sentences of characters and environment" published by Liang Jinxiang in Chinese Translators Journal in 1987. According to the author's statistics, 8 journal articles and master's theses with this research direction have appeared successively since then, among which there are 4 journals and 4 master's theses. It can be seen that the time and achievements of Chinese translation of environmental descriptions are not long and there is still a lot of room for research. In the following part, I will review and study the 9 articles about the environment in total.