刘华文教授的新作《翻译诗学》问世,实在是中国翻译界一件可喜可贺的事。因此,当他邀请我为其新著作序,我虽然工作甚忙,但依然欣然接受。接受邀请的原因很多,但主要是因为翻译学是我一直很有兴趣的研究课题,在很大程度上,我走上学术研究之路的最初途径就是翻译。我涉足翻译较早,20世纪80年代初,就和友人翻译过几部英美小说,如英国盖 Professor Liu Huawen’s new book “Translation Poetics” came out, it is indeed a gratifying thing for the Chinese translation community. Therefore, while he invited me to preface his new book, I am glad to accept it though I am working very hard. There are many reasons for accepting an invitation, but mainly because translation studies are a research topic that I have always been interested in. To a large extent, my initial approach to academic research was translation. I was involved in the translation earlier, and in the early 1980s I translated several British and American novels, such as the British cover