《左传》英译研究长期聚焦翻译策略与译本比较,缺乏对其承载的“地方性知识”世界性转化机制的深入探讨。本文基于知识流转四维框架与“真善美”翻译原则,考察杜润德等合译本中“侍君之礼”“待人之礼”“修己之礼”三类饮食礼仪的英译路径。该框架包含四个阶段:“去地方性”旨在将高度语境化的地方实践提炼为可跨文化理解的显性概念;“再地方性”强调在目的语认知框架中重构知识的意义网络,实现跨文化适配;“跨地方性”推动知识进入多元体系的流动与对话,形成网络化的知识生态;“世界性”则标志着知识超越起源语境,成为全球共享的公共资源。研究发现:合译本通过去地方性剥离礼仪程式的特定语境,提炼“权力象征”“仪式性互动”“道德自律”等核心概念;通过再地方性借助注释、文内阐释等策略重构知识的意义网络;进而使这些知识进入跨地方性的全球对话,最终迈向世界性的普遍接纳。合译本三位译者学术背景、文化身份与合作模式的有机协同则保障了译文“真善美”的呈现。本研究揭示了叙事性典籍中地方性知识世界性转化的特殊机制,即它不仅需要概念提炼,更需要叙事重构,为知识翻译学在文学及史学领域的应用提供了方法论参照。

Research on the English translation of the Zuo Zhuan has long focused on translation strategies and comparisons among different versions, while insufficient attention has been paid to the mechanisms through which the global transformation of its embedded “local knowledge” occurs. Drawing on the four-dimensional knowledge transformation framework of Transknowletology and the principles of “truth, virtue, and beauty”, this paper examines the translation strategies of three categories of dietary etiquette—“serving the ruler”, “hosting others” and “self-cultivation”—in the co-translation. The framework comprises four stages: “de-localization”, through which highly contextualized local practices are distilled into explicit concepts that can be understood across cultures; “re-localization”, which emphasizes reconstructing the semantic network of knowledge within the target language’s cognitive framework and achieve cross-cultural adaptation; “trans-localization”, which promotes the circulation of knowledge across multiple systems and its entry into dialogue, thereby generating a networked ecology of knowledge; and “globalization” the stage at which knowledge transcends its context of origin and becomes a globally shared public resource. The study finds that, through de-localization, the co-translation strips the highly contextualized ritual formalities of the context and distills such core concepts as “symbols of power”, “ritualized interaction” and “moral self-discipline”; through re-localization, it reconstructs the semantic network of this knowledge by means of annotation, in-text explication, and related strategies; and it further brings these forms of knowledge into trans-local global dialogue, ultimately moving toward broad worldwide acceptance. The organic synergy among the three translators’ academic backgrounds, cultural identities, and collaborative mode also helps ensure that the translation embodies “truth, virtue, and beauty”. This study reveals the distinctive mechanism by which local knowledge in narrative classics undergoes global transformation: such transformation requires not only conceptual distillation but also narrative reconfiguration. It provides a methodological point of reference for the application of knowledge translation studies in the fields of literature and historiography.