片斷：Inmyopinion，bothschoolshavetheirstrongpointsandweakpointssofarasliterarytranslationisconcerned.Nowthereisaten-dencytocombinetheirtheoriesintoacomprehensiveone.Asamatteroffact，literarytranslationhasadoublenature.That'stosay，ontheonehand，itisasciencewithitsownlawsandmethodsandontheother，itisanart.Nowlet'shaveafurtherdiscussionofitsdoublenatureinthefollowing：TranslationIsaScienceWesaythattranslationisascience，becauseithasitsownlawsandmethods.TakethetranslationbetweenEnglishandChineseforexample.Ifwewanttotranslatewell，wemustbeentirelyfamiliarwiththecontentoftheoriginalandalltheknowledgeitconcerns.Inaddition，weshouldhaveacomparativelycomprehensiveandthoroughstudyofEnglishandChinesesothatwemaydoourworkwithhighproficiency.ChineseandEnglishhavetheirrespectivecharacteristics.True，theyhavesimilarities，forexample，thewordorderofthesubjectanditspredicate，ofthetransitiveverbanditsobjectandoftheprepositionandtheobjectitgoverns;andatthesametime，theyhaveremarkabledifferences;forinstance，theformerhasnoarticlesbutthelatterhasthedefinite"the"andtheindefinite"a"and"an".Althoughthetwolanguageshavetheirrespectivecharacteristicswhicharenotquitealike，stillwecandothetranslationbetweenthem.Itisbecauselan-guageisthedirectrealityofthoughtandthebasiclawofreality：thought：languagewhichreflectstheobjectiveexistenceisincom-montobothEnglishandChinese，thusmakingitpossibletoexpressthesameideasandfeelingsindifferenttanguages.Andquantitiesoftranslatedworkshavelongprovedthepossibilityoftranslation.Andatthesametime，wemustadmitthatthelanguagesinwhichvariouspeoplesthinkandexpresstheirthoughtsarequitedifferentincharacteristicsandusage.Thisistheproblemthattroublesthetransla-tors，includingtheveteranones.Nosmattererscansolvesuchadiffi-cultproblem.Ifonewantstobeaqualifiedtranslator，oneshould，irstofall，haveapenetratingstudyandcarefulcomparisonofthesimilari-tiesanddifferencesbetweenthesetwolanguagessothatonemayfindthecorrespondinglawsandmethodsinthetranslationbetweenthem，dotranslationeffectivelyandensurethequalityoftranslation.Correspondinglawsdocxistintranslation.Takethefollowingsentenceasanexample：Thehorseisausefulanimal.后記：讀《文學(xué)翻譯十講》竟，賦六絕句洪荒造塔語(yǔ)言殊，從此人間要象胥。達(dá)志通情非末技，壯夫何用笑區(qū)區(qū)。越裳獻(xiàn)雉三重譯，越女抒懷易楚詞；姬旦、鄂君俱未泯，舌人名姓有誰(shuí)知！白馬馱經(jīng)事本虛，世高首譯費(fèi)工夫。千年佛典如煙海，不復(fù)旁行貝葉書(shū)。理論原從實(shí)踐來(lái)，道安究隱亦奇才。寸心得失明如鏡，《辨正》偏求八備材。譯事三難憶又陵，行文爾雅實(shí)難憑。先生獨(dú)出驚人論，改“切”功存一字稱。入深出淺善經(jīng)營(yíng)，字吐璣珠照眼明?！妒v》殺青知有日，行看紙貴洛陽(yáng)城。馬祖毅1990年于求得一齋

　　《文學(xué)翻譯十講》作者簡(jiǎn)介劉重德1914年生于河南，1934－1938年在北京大學(xué)、西南聯(lián)大外語(yǔ)系讀書(shū)。歷任中央大學(xué)講師，河南大學(xué)、國(guó)立師范學(xué)院、湖南大學(xué)副教授，現(xiàn)任湖南大學(xué)教授。兼任中國(guó)翻譯工作者協(xié)會(huì)副會(huì)長(zhǎng)、湖南省翻譯工作者協(xié)會(huì)會(huì)長(zhǎng)、省社會(huì)科學(xué)聯(lián)合會(huì)名譽(yù)委員、省文史館研究員、中國(guó)英漢語(yǔ)比較研究會(huì)籌委主任及民革中央團(tuán)結(jié)委員等職。專著有《英語(yǔ)AS用法研究》（1979）、《翻譯漫談》（1984）、《文學(xué)翻譯十講》（1991）；文集有《渾金璞玉集》（1994）；譯著有《愛(ài)瑪》（1949，1982，1993）、《黑奴吁天錄》（1981）、《癮君子自白》（1988）等五部；校注有《漢英四書(shū)》（1992，合校）；譯詩(shī)有《漢英對(duì)照千家詩(shī)》（1992，主要譯者之一）；主編《三湘譯論》（1994）、《英漢翻譯例句詞典》（1995）。