音译的无奈和取舍--以京杭大运河博物馆展厅翻译为例

摘要

This paper investigates the Chinese phonetic phenomenon in English translation in the Beijing -Hangzhou Grand Canal Museum.It found that transliteration is the method of helplessness that turns impossibility to possibility due to time and space constraints, unclearly targeted audiences , and concentration of proper nouns .Translation shall follow the principles of using transliteration for key words , combining transliteration and paraphrase translation for rich cultural heritage names , and avoiding transliteration for nouns related to time , so as to achieve a balance between information transfer and readers'acceptance .The suc-cess in granting Grand Canal in the World Heritage List is an important milestone but not the end , and how to use the “world lan-guage” to narrate“Hangzhou's Story” is a long-term research project .%考察京杭大运河博物馆展厅英译的拼音化现象，发现由于时空限制、目标读者不明确和专有名词集中等原因，音译是化不可能为可能的无奈之举。翻译需遵循关键词汇用音译、富含文化底蕴的地名音译与意译相结合和时间名词避免音译等原则，尽可能保持信息传递与读者接受度的平衡。大运河申遗成功是重要的里程碑却不是终点，如何用“世界语言”讲述“杭州故事”是一项长期的研究课题。