Study on Lin Shu’s Translation Style and Its Formation

Lin Shu brought the style of elegance and succinctness ancient Chinese prose into his translation, but he also tried best to convey original readers. When rendering various styles, naturally “inelegant” “insuccinct” elements thus weakening some extent. Nevertheless, “elegant succinct” in translation was maintained at a relatively high proportion as whole, so could still be categorized that “elegance succinctness”. In terms its dynamic formation, it closely related translator, target readers cultural strategy. To specific, Shu’s good command classical prose, stylistic preference traditional literati scholar bureaucrats, well strategy assimilating foreign languages with style, all contributed formation Lin’s style.