湯馬士•哈代 (Thomas Hardy) 所寫的《遠離塵囂》(Far From the Madding Crowd) 是極富盛名的田園愛情小說，也是開啟他往後一系列以維塞克斯(Wessex) 為背景之長篇小說的第一部小說。然而，《遠離塵囂》為人津津樂道的並不只是書裡四位男女主角的情愛糾葛，而是湯馬士•哈代在這部作品中探討了一些值得深思的議題：對照當今的現代化社會，湯馬士•哈代藉由故事中的時空背景及生動的人物刻劃，帶領讀者去深思人與人之間的關係、人類與自然環境的相互連結，及和平共存的重要性。
本論文共分為五個章節。第一章論述本研究的動機及目的。第二章簡介湯馬士•哈代及其小說《遠離塵囂》。第三章為文獻探討，回顧一些有關《遠離塵囂》的相關議題研究及文學評論，也回顧了許多翻譯相關研究。第四章著重於比較《遠離塵囂》的三個中譯本，其中包含各譯本之翻譯策略及翻譯問題的探討。第五章則總結譯本對照分析後的發現與結果。

Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd weaves a fascinating love story in Victorian rural England. However, it is not a mere romance per se; it further explores deeper issues about the protagonists’ inner struggles and growths, and the connections between human and nature. Yet Far From the Madding Crowd has not been coated with heavy atmosphere of fate and pessimism which appeared more frequent in his later works. By describing a love story in countryside that portrayed the struggles and growths of a woman and three men with different personalities, Thomas Hardy further explores the complex psychological progress of characters and subtle connection between man and nature. Therefore the researcher will focus on the critical analysis of the specific Chinese versions of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd to make this novel more accessible to the Chinese reader.
This essay contains five sections. The first part describes the motivation and purpose of the study. The second provides a concise introduction of Thomas Hardy and Far From the Madding Crowd. In the third part, the researcher will do a research on the literature reviews related to the novel and introduce some translation theories in analyzing the Chinese translations of Thomas Hardy's novel. In the study of the comparison of the three translation versions, Eugene Nida’s “dynamic-equivalence” theory is adopted as the major theory. The fourth part aims to elaborate on the analysis and comparison of three selected Chinese translation versions through certain translation strategies and methods. Some problematic passages of the Chinese versions will be presented and analyzed critically and possible solutions will be offered to form constructive dialogue with the original novel and make the novel more accessible to the Chinese reader. The final part gives a conclusion to summarize the findings of the study and more suggestions in literary translation will be given.

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