【正确答案】 The highest standard in literary translation is " sublimation". A translation which manages to change a work from the language of one nation into the language of another whilst not evincing any of the forced or inflexible usages that derive from differences between language habits, and which at the same time preserves intact the flavor of the original work, may be considered to have entered this "realm of sublimation" . In praising the attainment in translation of just such a sphere, a seventeenth-century Englishman compared the process to "the transmigration of souls" whereby, although the external form of the original is completely replaced, the inner soul remains exactly the same. There exists inevitably a hiatus between the language of one nation and that of another, just as it is impossible for there not to be an interstice between the understanding and literary style of the translator and the content and from of the original work. Moreover, there is also frequently a disjunction between the translator's appreciation of an original work and his or her own powers of expression. Yet translation, by definition, will always involve both the language of the nation of the original work as point of departure and the language of the nation into which the work is translated as point of arrival. The path that leads between these two points is an exceedingly tortuous one and the original, buffered by hardships and encountering every sort of peril a-long the way, will inevitably suffer loss or damage. All translations therefore are, in part, untrue to their originals and serve to distort them. They either violate the meaning and tone of these originals , or, at the very least, fail to quite match them. It is this aspect of translation that we refer to as its "misrepresentation" —as the Western adage has it: "The translator is a traitor" . The words "decoy" (mei) and "inveigle" (you) obviously serve to explain the role of translation within the processes of cultural interaction between nations. A translation acts the role of an intermediary or liaison officer. Performing a function somewhat akin to that of matchmaker, a translation establishes "Literary Affinities" between nations.