"隐形(invisibility):译文读起来流畅,看上去像“原作”。 归化(domestication)和异化(foreignization) Venuti对归化现象感到痛心,因为“根据种族中心主义思想,迫使外语文本符合[英美]目的语文化的价值观。”这就要求翻译必须以透明、流畅和隐形的方式进行,把译文的异质性成分减到最少。 故意保留异质性的成分,目的在于使译者“显形”(visible),并使读者意识到他们读的是一部来自外国文化的作品的译本。 <The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation>(1995) <The Scandals"
"James S. Holmes's 'The Name and nature of translation studies' is considered to be the founding of a new discipline."
"Additionally, Nida is aware of what he terms 'the artistic sensitivity which is an indispensible ingredient in any first-rate translation of a literary work'."