摘 要

中国古典诗歌是中国传统文化的瑰宝，其中唐诗是最杰出的系列之一。在唐代杰出的浪漫主义诗人中，李白在他的诗歌中创造了许多意象。在翻译方面，相对来说，诗歌翻译比其他文学作品翻译更复杂、更难，因为诗歌不仅可以用精简的词语来表达丰富的情感，而且还具有浓郁的民族特色。所以对于译者来说，用另一种语言来传达李白最原始的艺术思想，并且准确翻译出李白诗歌中的众多意象，是十分具有挑战难度的。

李白的诗歌在研究和交流中具有重要价值，一千多年来，关于李白的诗歌有许多译本，它们被翻译成了日语、俄语、英语等多种语言。其中，仅是英文版便不乏名篇名作。在此基础上，对中国学者许渊冲的翻译研究应该作为一个不断学习进步的角色，逐渐完善表达李白诗歌中的意象。许渊冲是中国的翻译专家，他有自己的翻译标准和原则，在文学翻译的表达上追求美的意境。此外，在他代表性的翻译作品中，注重诗歌的节奏美。本文主要研究许渊冲对李白诗歌意象的翻译，以期为中国古典诗歌的翻译提供借鉴和启示。

关键字： 李白的诗歌，许渊冲，翻译，意象

Abstract

Classical Chinese poetry is a kind of excellent treasure of the traditional Chinese culture, among which Tang Poetry is one of the most distinguished series. When it comes to the brilliant Chinese Romantic Poets in Tang Dynasty, Li Bai creates many formed images in his poetry. In translation of literary works, the translation of poems is more complicated and more difficult than the other literary works in translation, which is not only because of the fact that poems can express rich emotions by using short words, but also because of its strong national characteristics. Thus, it is challenging for translators to convey Li Bai’s original artistic concept and those images in his poems in another language,

His poems are very important in the value of research and communication. For more than one thousand years, there are many translations about Li Bai’s poems, which has been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Russian, English. Among them, only the English version is full of many famous masterpieces. Based on this, a case study of the Chinese scholar Xu Yuanchong’s translation should play the role of a good learner who conveys the image in Li Bai’s poetry. Xu Yuanchong, who is a Chinese translation expert, has his own standards and principles to seek beauty that is expressed in his literary translations. In his translation works, which are representative, he pays attention to the rhythm and beauty of poems. This thesis focuses on the translation of images in the poetry by Xu, in order to bring reference and enlightenment for the translation of Chinese Classical Poetry.

Key words: Li Bai’s poems, Xu yuanchong, translation, images

contents

Chapter1. Introduction 1

1.1. Li Bai and his poems 1

1.2. A brief introduction of translation of Li Bai’s poems and Xu yuanchong 1

Chapter 2. Xu Yuanchong’s theories on the translation 3

2.1. The principle of "three beauties" 3

2.2. Xu Yuanchong’s views on translation of poems 4

Chapter 3. Images in Li Bai’s poems 5

3.1. Definition of image 5

3.2. Classification of Li Bai’s poetic images 5

3.3. Features of Li Bai’s poetic images 7

Chapter 4. Translation of images in Li Bai’s poems by Xu 9

4.1. The translation transformation of images 9

4.2. Images production of beauty 10

4.3. The transmission of images in translation by Xu 11

Chapter 5. Xu’s translation of some representative images in Li Bai’s poems 13

5.1. The image of "wine" 13

5.2. The image of "sword" 14

Chapter 6. Conclusion 15

Reference .....................................................................................................................16Acknowledgements......................................................................................................17

A Case Study of Image Translation in Li Bai’s Poetry by Xu Yuanchong

Chapter 1.

The Moon over Eyebrow Mountains,1.1 Li Bai and his poems

Li Bai is a representative romantic poet in the Prime Tang Dynasty, who is one of the most productive poets in the history. He has a heroic character and it leads him travel throughout North and South. During his life, he created so many famous poems and they are spread through the ages, among which the most outstanding series is the romantic poetry. In classical Chinese poems, Li Bai’s poems is not only one of the most brilliant treasure of it, but also a sparkling pearl in world literary history.

His poems are bold and unrestrained, fresh and elegant, with rich imagination and artistic language, which are so wonderful, and lively that he was called "shixian" by people. Li Bai’s poems not only have the typical romantic spirit, but also the image. No matter the material intake, the use of genre selection or various artistic techniques, all of them absolutely reveal the characteristics of romantic art quintessence. However, with the talents in literature, he has a high self expectation and despises dignitaries as a commoner, and brazenly mocks the center of the rank order and political power, as well as political corruption phenomenon, with bold revolt, promoting the culture of Tang Dynasty in the spirit of heroism. Seeing his poetry, it can be found that Li Bai’s ideology of anti power is becoming more and more conscious and mature. (Zhou Rong, 2012)

1.2 A brief introduction of the translation of Li Bai’s poems and Xu yuanchong

For more than one thousand years, there are many translations about Li Bai’s poems, which has been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Russian, English. Among them, only the English version is full of many famous masterpieces. The translation of poems is more complicated and more difficult than the other literary works in translation. It is not only because of the fact that poems can express rich emotions by using short words, but also because of its strong national characteristics. The same image in different national culture however expresses different emotions, which is the crux and difficulty of poems translation. The traditional study of poetic image focuses on the language, emphasizing the structure of poems or the equivalence of prosody. (Zhang Zhizhong, 2006)

As for Xu yuanchong, an outstanding translator and noteworthy translation theorist and the professor of Peking University, has translated more than 60 works in English and French, among them there are The Book of Songs, The Songs of Chu, 300 Tang Poems, Romance of the Western Chamber, The Red and The Black, Remembrance of things past and so on. He is the only Chinese expert who translates ancient poetry into English version. Also, Selected Poems of Li Bai is also one of them, which is the major content of this text.