博恩丛书

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On Reading Translations

The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn’s Library（《博恩丛书》） have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named above, and all good books, in translation. What is really best in any book is translatable, any real insight or broad human interest. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it is easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody. The Italians have a fling at translators, i traditori traduttori (translators, traitors); but I thank them. I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German， Italian, sometimes not even a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech—the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother-tongue.

R. W. Emerson

《博恩丛书》是相当好的——有时是非常好的——译本，对文学做出的贡献，可以和铁路对国内交通事业所作的贡献相比。对于我上面提到过的所有书籍，以及一切好书，我都愿意去读它们的译本，对此我毫不犹豫。任何一本书的真正精华所在——任何真知灼见或是广泛的人生情趣，都是可以翻译出来的。不仅如此，我还注意到，对我们的《圣经》和其它具有高尚道德情操的书籍来说，把抑扬顿挫和声调优美的原文译成同样富有音韵美的语句似乎并不困难，甚至是必然如此。意大利人对于翻译家有句颇为嘲讽的谚语——i traditori traduttori (翻译者都是叛逆者)。可我对翻译家还是心怀感激的。只要我能觅得一个好的译本，我很少去读一本拉丁文、希腊文、德文或意大利文的原著，有时连一本法文本的原著我也不读。我很想对气魄宏大的英语表达感谢之意。它的确是象大海一般，融汇了来自世界各地的百川支流。对于我上面提到过的那些书籍，如果已经有我的母语译本，我不会想到要去阅读原著，这就好比要是我去波士顿的话，决不会想到要游过查尔斯河一样。

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