一部翻译作品译出了这样一句:“他大学毕业后在彭塔冈工作了五年。”看到“彭塔冈”这个词儿,谁都会感到莫名其妙。这是一个州?一个城?一个乡?还是一个村?可如果一旦弄明白这里的“彭塔冈”,原来是“五角大楼”或“美国国防部”(Pentagon)之误译,恐怕就会连呼“上当”了。 此例并非本文杜撰。译文质量不高已成困扰翻译界、出版界乃至读书界的一大顽症。 近日读到法国外交事务专家艾里克·洛朗的专著《从信息革命到情报战争》的 A translator translated this sentence: “He spent five years at Pontagon after graduating from college.” Everybody would feel baffled when he saw the word “Patagonia.” This is a state, a city, a township, or a village. But once you understand the “Pentagon” here, it turns out that it was a mistake by the Pentagon or the Pentagon, Call “fooled.” This case is not the author of this article. Poor quality of translation has plagued the translation industry, the publishing industry and even a staple of the book industry. Recently read the book “From the Information Revolution to the Intelligence War” by Erich Laurent, a French foreign affairs expert