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John Fryer’s Contribution to Standardization of Translated Scientific Terminology in Modern China! b! |! g, U8 Z1 {; J
YANG Lifang: MA Student, School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang University of
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LI Changbao, Ph.D., Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang University of
- c( q0 }/ e2 lFinance & Economics, Hangzhou, China.
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2 C- Z% }7 U& b( E( Y. rSupported by National Social Sciences Foundation Project (16BYY011) .* B' Q; {# K1 H& m" k- O, ^
Received 5 October 2017; accepted 8 January 2018' S- x7 l9 G# l
Published online 26 January 2018
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Abstract
1 G2 b/ G3 v: M6 A% OJohn Fryer was a British missionary in the late Qing
$ l) r$ \; f$ J6 jDynasty who came to China and was employed by The5 m) H- _% _0 D. r
Translation Department of Kiangnan Arsenal. He has been. E( }/ q# T7 v! Y( V
engaged in the translation work for over 28 years, not3 r3 @: ~4 ]4 C7 H+ n
only having translated a great deal of Western scientific2 [, Y4 x7 |6 q( c( a0 g+ ?
works into Chinese, but also having contributed greatly
: j; l- [3 _, I* |9 U4 q8 { v7 Vto the standardization of the scientific terminology
v! ] r4 e& M6 T& ~translation. This paper first attempts to probe into Fryer’s
$ `2 i$ J7 M i1 w" xscientific translation practice and his translation ideas,
I! a5 k, d( `! d" D) @/ A; l$ Uand then points out that Fryer’s major contributions to the4 k6 v6 W6 y$ C6 ?
standardization of the scientific terminology translation% m. d* N- z2 A: E: d
in Modern China are that the magazine Ko-chih-hui-pien' X) }6 K" f A1 m
he established had helped greatly with the popularization. R: M/ V; q- B: h" D+ b; s
of modern scientific knowledge, that the book Mirroring& ?: l1 J* Z0 A% o3 G2 J5 T6 q& u
the Origins of Chemistry he translated had paved the way8 G' D5 \$ q) _9 \8 T+ G# N
for the term translation of modern chemical elements, and
9 U7 v4 [& v, Z+ g9 o3 T; ~8 k9 V) q, `that various lists of bilingual technical terms he made, to a
1 Y. y. h. B% ]' ggreat degree, had standardized the translation of scientific, c6 ^3 y; F# ?$ q: X8 k% |
terminology.
8 p" T% i8 P$ sKey words: John Fryer; Scientific translation;
& ~- \. p }$ P. C, a* [Standardization of terminology translation& J( g+ F q6 t- T3 E, a
Yang, L. F., & Li, C. B. (2018). John Fryer’s Contribution to
" H/ s. \' O$ Y: C5 c. y; T3 dStandardization of Translated Scientific Terminology in Modern
; Z2 w' ?: \2 U" y/ d7 R2 b& bChina. Studies in Literature and Language, 16 (1), 7-13. Available' z) K6 I: C0 A+ j' \" ~+ |. o
from: http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/sll/article/view/10213" P* k) J. |. d- K+ Q
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/10213# J8 ?( D( H+ ~, f; [+ e
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4 Z( n7 b; B' wINTRODUCTION* {+ O( n% h- G, L
John Fryer (1839-1928) was an English missionary and* f" g7 b1 @6 U
a great translator in the late Qing dynasty (1840-1912).
2 P5 B, a. T( l( ~2 _5 b% z8 YDriven by his intense interest in China, Fryer came to
: _8 s& ~* G; S6 V4 h( o0 ?Hong Kong in the year of 1861 to serve as the dean of9 R7 z4 F: D6 X% O8 ^
St. Paul’s College. And in 1868, Fryer was employed
8 Z u. B1 s* P' iby The Translation Department of Kiangnan Arsenal as1 Q' |, c2 x$ v$ {0 R* w: y0 X3 Z. W
an editor and chief translator. During the 28 years on2 R: [2 L! O( ^1 C0 R2 g8 B# H
his job, with the help of his colleague Xu Shou (1818-
R" |4 l4 p# K0 v. `1 Y* k1884), Fryer translated a great deal of Western scientific
+ P1 p9 K3 c* p* gworks and illustrated his translation ideas. As a foreigner,7 B1 p& U. r# m/ X. i
Fryer adopted the Buddhist technique of oral instruction.
# c! R6 R7 _: o3 r$ n0 H& RNamely, sitting with his Chinese assistant, Fryer dictated
: G8 {) a: k# V/ n3 }8 yto him sentence by sentence, while the Chinese assistant* `4 \5 K" e7 p/ P7 U4 }, V
would transcribe what Fryer said into literary Chinese,
8 w0 A0 \* b$ srevise the manuscript and correct errors. By this means,
S- e9 j m7 y o2 nFryer translated more than one hundred of Western- e' F/ x- }# u( `& W Y. B
books that made him the most productive one among the( N3 ~9 U& C; R+ D& k# m* n0 A( D
foreign translators of that time (Wang, 1998). For Fryer,
4 E# M$ y! J/ _, F2 ytranslating Western scientific books into Chinese was a
g" }" V$ k4 R* f* W3 Pnoble work which could help accelerate the process of
s" w: X5 s* T# R Z& kpeople’s enlightenment of science (Chen, 2000, p.83).
+ e# z. W D" ?. u8 ~2 SIn addition to his achievements in translation, Fryer
1 ~/ C3 M) A. H1 n4 c6 @$ `' I8 m1 X5 Halso paid much attention to the dissemination of Western9 v( a. L# I% }3 O* y
science and the standardization of translated scientific
! A9 c% d3 x/ Q9 Rterms in Modern China. He set up the first scientific4 z% y, F% l6 G6 V2 Z1 X; G
magazine Ko-chih-hui-pien (1875), and donated for the! g% @1 o+ d9 U. a' `
establishment of Shanghai Deaf-mutes School. Another: a+ z5 {0 @$ Y$ I$ V Z
contribution made by Fryer was that he translated a series
m, U# U! o1 |2 ^7 {of chemistry books which filled the blanks of chemistry in
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An American scholar Dagenais (2010) published3 U9 y# W' ^( \6 s$ Y
The John Fryer Papers, which collected a great deal of9 h7 [2 I; W# S9 Z
travel notes, letters and essays written by Fryer, providing
# Q+ d2 ?8 l4 O0 \0 ?a lot of valuable information for the latter studies. In
- ?5 @3 g4 T0 U% w& ~9 s- UJohn Fryer: The Introduction of Western Science and
- U- c, f3 s$ eTechnology into Nineteenth-Century China, another |
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