William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice(1600)is controversial as a result of its negative depiction of the Jewish figure Shylock.In translating this literary work into Chinese,the translator is quite possibly involved in reconstructing the image of Jews,as Shylock being the representative in The Merchant of Venice,consciously,or unconsciously.In this paper,the translation of The Merchant of Venice by Shiqiu Liang(2001)is selected to find out how the image of Jews is conveyed to the Chinese readers.Due to the translator’s translation principle of being loyal to the original text,the content in the original text is transferred to the target readers without manipulation.However,the translation work was conducted with a particular social background which is believed to have influenced the translator’s interpretation of the original text.Accompanied the selected translation is a paratext,in which the translator expresses his own opinion on both the playwright and the Jewish and non-Jewish figures in the play;with this paratext,the target readers understand the figures in the play in a different way.Therefore,a different image of Jews is reconstructed in the translation,which is mainly analyzed at the level of larger textual units reflecting hierarchical relations from the perspective of imagology.
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机译：威廉·莎士比亚（William Shakespeare）的《威尼斯商人》（The Merchant of Venice，1600）由于对犹太人物夏洛克的负面描写而引起争议。在将这部文学作品翻译成中文时，译者很可能参与了犹太人形象的重建，因为夏洛克是代表本文选择了梁世秋（2001）的《威尼斯商人》的译本，以了解犹太人的形象是如何传达给中国读者的。忠实于原始文本的原则将原始文本的内容不加操纵地转移给目标读者。但是，翻译工作是在特定的社会背景下进行的，据信这影响了译者对原始文本的解释。伴随着所选译文的是一个paratext，译者在其中对剧作家，犹太人和非犹太人表达了自己的看法。戏剧中的人物;通过这种旁语，目标读者以不同的方式理解戏剧中的人物。因此，在翻译中重构了不同的犹太人形象，主要是在反映层次结构的较大文本单元的层次上进行分析。从影像学的角度看关系。
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