【摘要】 <正> 英语ballad一词在各种英汉辞典中就其文学含意通常译为“民歌、民谣(或歌谣)”(见《新英汉词典》、《最新英汉五用辞典》、《英华大辞典》等)。这种译法并不准确。笔者最近从事英国民间诗歌的研究,发现ballads作为一种特殊样式的民间诗歌同汉语所说的“民歌”、“民谣”意思并不完全一样。更多还原

【Abstract】 English popular ballads are basically narrative, while folk songs are mainly lyric. But in mostEnglish-Chinese dictionaries, ballad is perfunctorily defined as folk songs. This article explains thedifference between ballads and other types of folk poetry and offers a different Chinese translationof the word ballad.更多还原