On the English translation of Happy Dreams from the perspective of Chesterman's models of translation ethics
切斯特曼翻译伦理视角下《高兴》英译研究

摘要

贾平凹的文学作品《高兴》生动反映了当代中国的历史、社会和文化风貌。其英文版《高兴》由英国汉学家韩斌（Nicky Harman）进行翻译。翻译本身是一种伦理行为，是在跨文化交流中实现特定意图的一种主观且积极的伦理活动。在翻译伦理研究中，荷兰翻译理论家安德鲁·切斯特曼（Andrew Chesterman）总结并提出了翻译伦理的五个基本模式：再现伦理、服务伦理、交际伦理、规范伦理和承诺伦理，为翻译伦理研究提供了一个可行的框架。本文通过比较分析，探讨《高兴》及其英文版《Happy Dreams》中伦理模式的体现，旨在探讨译者在语言转换中的翻译选择，以深化对翻译活动的理解。研究发现，韩斌的翻译有效地保持了对原文的忠实，满足了目标读者和客户的需求，促进了跨文化交流与相互理解，有助于规范认知，并体现了优秀译者的专业责任。从翻译伦理角度进行的翻译研究可以更客观、全面地从多角度评估译者的翻译选择，并为优秀当代中国文学作品的英译研究提供实践和探索。

Abstract

Jia Pingwa's literary work Gaoxing vividly reflects the historical, social and cultural landscape of contemporary China. Its English version Happy Dreams is translated by Nicky Harman. Translation itself is a kind of ethical act, which is a subjective and active ethical activity to realize specific intentions in cross-cultural communication. In the study of translation ethics, Dutch translation theorist, Andrew Chesterman summarizes and presents five fundamental models on translation ethics: ethics of representation, ethics of service, ethics of communication, norm-based ethics and ethics of commitment, which provides a feasible framework for the study of translation ethics. This study adopts Chesterman's models of translation ethics as the research perspective and explores the embodiment in Gaoxing and Happy Dreams through comparative analysis. It aims to explore the translator's translation choices in language conversion so as to deepen the understanding of translation activities. It is found that Harman 's translation effectively maintains the faithfulness to the source text, meets the expectations of the target readers and the client, promotes cross-cultural communication and mutual understanding, helps standardize cognition with norms, and assume the professional responsibility of a good translator. It can be seen that translation studies from the perspective of translation ethics can make a more objective and comprehensive multi-perspective evaluation of the translator's translation choices, and carry out practice and exploration for the study of English translation of excellent contemporary Chinese literary works.