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TheTranslationTheoryofLawrenceVenutiTheTranslationTheoryofLawrenceVenutiThreeMainWorksRethinkingTranslation:Discourse,Subjectivity,Ideology(1992)反思翻译：语篇，主体性与意识形态TheTranslator’sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslation(1995)译者的隐形：一部翻译史TheScandalofTranslation:TowardsanEthicsofDifference(1998)翻译的丑闻：差异的伦理TheTranslator'sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslationVenutiusestheterm“invisibility”todescribethepositionoftranslatorsinAnglo-Americanculture英美文化.Andhethinksitisnotfairforthetranslatorstobeinthesecondaryposition,butshouldbevisibleinthetranslation.Sohecriticizesthetraditionalcanonofdomesticaltranslation,whichleadstothefluentandtransparenttranslation,andadvocatedtheforeignizingtranslation.TheTranslator'sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslation“Faithfulrenditionisdefinedpartlybytheillusionoftransparency”.Foreignizingtranslationis“likelytoencounteroppositionfrompublishersandlargesegmentsofAnglophonereaderswhoreadforimmediateintelligibility”.Thisleadstoaclimateinwhichfluencyisthemostimportantqualityforatranslationandalltracesofforeignnessoralterity他异性tendtobepurposelyerased.TheTranslator'sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslationAccordingtoVenuti,thedomesticatingstrategy“violently”erasestheculturalvaluesandthuscreatesatextwhichasifhadbeenwritteninthetargetlanguageandwhichfollowstheculturalnormsofthetargetreader.“Anethnodeviantpressure反我族主义的压力on[target-languagecultural]valuestoregisterthelinguisticandculturaldifferenceoftheforeigntext,sendingthereaderabroad（Venuti,1995:20）.”“ForeignizingtranslationinEnglishcanbeaformofresistanceagainstethnocentrismandracism,culturalnarcissim文化自恋andimperialism,intheinterestofdemocraticgeopoliticalrelations（Venuti,1995:20）.”TheScandalsofTranslation:TowardsanEthicsofDifferenceDomesticationandforeignizationdealwith“thequestionofhowmuchatranslationassimilatesaforeigntexttothetranslatinglanguageandculture,andhowmuchitrathersignalsthedifferencesofthattext(Wikipedia).AccordingtoLawrenceVenuti,everytranslatorshouldlookatthetranslationprocessthroughtheprism棱镜ofculturewhichrefracts折射thesourcelanguageculturalnormsanditisthetranslator’stasktoconveythem,preservingtheirmeaningandtheirforeignness,tothetarget-languagetext.TheScandalsofTranslation:TowardsanEthicsofDifferenceVenuticontinuestoinsistonforeignizingor“minoritizing”translation,tocultivateavariedand“heterogeneous异种的discourse”(Venuti1998:11).Thusanadequatetranslationwouldbetheonethatwouldhighlighttheforeignnessofthesourcetextandinsteadofallowingthedominanttargetculturetoassimilatethedifferencesofthesourceculture,itshouldrathersignalthesedifferences.SummaryLawrenceVenutiadvocatedtheforeignizingtranslationandrefusedthefluentversion.Heinsistedinpresentingthedifferencesoftheoriginalintranslations.Theresistancetranslationisagainsttheethnocentrismandracism,culturalnarcissimandimperialism.References:1.Venuti,Lawrence,TheTranslator'sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslation.London:Routledge,1995.2.Venuti,Lawrence,TheScandalsofTranslation:TowardsanEthicsofDifference.Manchester:St.leromePublishing,1998.