世界文化遗产是地方性知识的物质载体。清东陵作为明清皇家陵寝的杰出代表,承载着陵寝制度、风水理论、建筑技艺、礼制秩序等高度语境化的地方性知识体系。本文以知识翻译学为理论框架,考察清东陵景区解说词英译中地方性知识的“世界化”路径。研究发现,解说词英译面临“知识压缩”“知识显化”“知识转化”三重核心挑战。三者与知识翻译学“真、善、美”核心原则形成内在对应:知识压缩主要回应“善”(知识可及度)的要求,知识显化主要实现“真”(知识保真度)与“善”的结合,知识转化则需在三者间实现动态平衡。译者通过音意合译、语境增补、类比阐释等策略,使源语地方性知识在目标语中完成系统性知识重构。基于此,本文提出“知识适配度”概念,构建三维度评估框架,为文化遗产翻译的成效评估提供理论工具,丰富知识翻译学的实践内涵,为文化遗产外宣研究的范式构建提供理论参照。

World Cultural Heritage is the material carrier of local knowledge. As an outstanding representative of the Ming and Qing Imperial Tombs, the Eastern Qing Tombs embodies a highly contextualized local knowledge system covering mausoleum institutions, feng shui (geomantic) theory, architectural craftsmanship, and ritual order. Taking Transknowletology as its theoretical framework, this paper examines the globalization pathway of local knowledge in English translations of tour commentaries for the Eastern Qing Tombs. It finds that the translation faces three core challenges: knowledge compression, knowledge explicitation, and knowledge transformation. These three correspond intrinsically to Transknowletology’s core principles of truth, goodness, and beauty: knowledge compression mainly meets the requirement of goodness (knowledge accessibility); knowledge explicitation realizes the integration of truth (knowledge fidelity) and goodness; knowledge transformation demands a dynamic balance across all three principles. Through strategies including phonetic-semantic translation, contextual supplementation and analogical interpretation, translators achieve systematic reconstruction of source local knowledge in the target language. On this basis, the paper proposes the concept of “knowledge adaptability” and a three-dimensional evaluation framework. This framework provides a theoretical tool for assessing cultural heritage translation effectiveness, enriches the practical connotation of Transknowletology, and offers a theoretical reference for paradigm building in cultural heritage international communication research.