Abstract

It is collectively acknowledged that language is inseparable with culture, which means every linguistic activity links closely to the culture itself. A Dream of Red Mansions, as the epitome of the Chinese feudal society, boasts of rich and enormous life and cultural contexts, extraordinary depth of thoughts, incomparable writing skills, and unique artistic and aesthetic values. All these, however, pose great challenges to translators. The aim of this thesis is, from the perspective of the relationship between translation and culture, citing and analyzing some examples in Yang Xianyi couples’ and D.Hawkes’ translations A Dream of Red Mansions, and to elucidate the great influence of cultural differences such as the differences between source language and target language, between Eastern and Western thinking modes and translators’ different culture subjectivity on interlingual translation

Key words: interlingual translation; culture differences; A Dream of Red Mansions

摘要

众所周知，语言离不开文化，这就意味着每一次的语言活动都与它所处在的文化息息相关。《红楼梦》，这部代表中国封建社会缩影的文学巨著，蕴涵了丰富多彩的文化因素，体现了非凡的思想深度、高超的写作技巧和独特的艺术及审美价值。然而，这些却意味着译者要面临巨大的挑战。本文将从翻译与文化的关系角度出发，通过引用和分析杨宪益夫妇和大卫.霍克斯英译本《红楼梦》中部分译例的方法，旨在阐明源语和目标语中的文化差异；东西方思维模式的不同，和译者本身的文化迥异对语际翻译的巨大影响。

关键词：语际翻译，文化差异，《红楼梦》。