关键词: 翻译研究, 认知模式, 知识谱系, 功能

Abstract: Translation studies have long been focusing on the experience of word-for-word process from one language to another, including specific skills, appreciation of translated versions, biographical studies of translators as well as the history of translation. This paper holds that the value of translation lies in its prominent transformation of the intellectual history. Through the introduction of new knowledge, translation helps cause a rethinking of the fixed cognitive patterns and thus renews the knowledge genealogy. Therefore, translation has not only played a unique role in cultural history but also served as an inseparable part in academic history. By exemplifying cases in medieval Europe and modern Chinese culture, the author attempts to illuminate such functions of translation while emphasizing its knowledge construction from interdisciplinary perspectives, which constitutes the essential feature of translation at large.