浅谈Cyberspace翻译

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浅谈Cyberspace翻译

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直达本质，Cyber是信波。

一、 追根溯源看英文

Cyberspace是个英文单词，显而易见，在信息网络时代，首先要

到wiki搜索一下。以下斜体字是搜索结果。

Cyberspace is "the notional environment in which communication over

computer networks occurs."[1]

[1]/us/definition/american_english/cybersp

ace

这段引自牛津词典的定义，大意是说：Cyberspace是指在计算机

网络上进行沟通的环境。先看看Cyberspace的来历。

The word became popular in the 1990s when the uses of the Internet,

networking, and digital communication were all growing dramatically and

the term "cyberspace" was able to represent the many new ideas and

phenomena that were emerging.[2]

[2]Strate, Lance (1999). "The varieties of cyberspace: Problems in definition

and delimitation". Western Journal of Communication 63 (3): 382–3.

大意是说：上个世纪九十年代，随着互联网、网络、数字通信的

蓬勃发展，Cyberspace一词流行起来，被用来表示众多涌现的新观

念和新现象。再看看Cyberspace的来源。

The parent term of cyberspace is "cybernetics", derived from the

Ancient Greek

κσβερνήτης

(kybernētēs, steersman, governor, pilot,

or rudder), a word introduced by Norbert Wiener for his pioneering work

in electronic communication and control science.

大意是说：Cyberspace继承自cybernetics，来源于古希腊语，

有控制、舵手、领导、领航、指导等含义。Norbert Wiener（维纳）

的开山之作《控制论》引入了cybernetics这个词语。Cyberspace

尚未形成一致的官方定义，按照F. D. Kramer的说法，有28种不同

的定义。感兴趣者，可以搜索以下资料。

"Cyberpower and National Security: Policy Recommendations for a Strategic

Framework," in Cyberpower and National Security, FD Kramer, S. Starr, L.K. Wentz

(ed.), National Defense University Press, Washington (DC) 2009

/14336129/International_Politics_in_the_Digital_Age

Cyberspace的最新推荐定义：一个全球动态域，特征是混合使用

电子和电磁频谱，用于生成、存储、改变、交换、共享与提取、使用、

消除信息并破坏物理资源。

Cyberspace is a global and dynamic domain (subject to constant change)

characterized by the combined use of electrons and electromagnetic

spectrum, whose purpose is to create, store, modify, exchange, share and

extract, use, eliminate information and disrupt physical resources.

Cyberspace包括计算机网络、通信网络和数据，原文如下：

a) physical infrastructures and telecommunications devices that allow

for the connection of technological and communication system networks,

understood in the broadest sense (SCADA devices, smartphones/tablets,

computers, servers, etc.);

b) computer systems (see point a) and the related (sometimes embedded)

software that guarantee the domain's basic operational functioning and

connectivity;

c) networks between computer systems;

d) networks of networks that connect computer systems (the distinction

between networks and networks of networks is mainly organizational);

e) the access nodes of users and intermediaries routing nodes;

f) constituent data (or resident data).

Cyberspace有一个显著和本质特征：没有中心实体对构成新域的

所有网络实施控制。

二、 概念发展看美军

从词义溯源可见，Cyberspace是一个还在发展和逐渐成熟的概念。

为了全面且深入地理解这个概念，跟踪一下美军的发展。

Cyberwarfare has been defined as "actions by a nation-state to

penetrate another nation's computers or networks for the purposes of

causing damage or disruption,"

Cyberwarfare是以摧毁或混乱计算机或网络为目的的行动。更详

尽的词条解释，可以到wiki搜索Cyberwarfare。其中有一条很耐人

寻味:中国的信息行动和信息战，包括网络战，其概念与美国的Cyber

Warfare概念相似。原文如下：

Chinese information Operations and information warfare includes the

concept of “network warfare”, roughly analogous to the United States

Concept of Cyber warfare.[1]

[1]”China’s Evolving Perspectives on Network Warfare: Lessons from the

Science of Military Strategy” April 16,2015,Joe McReynolds,

三、 本质内涵信达雅

Cyberspace的翻译何不采取另一种方法，不强求从始至终用一个

中文词语，而是持发展的观点，抓住最新的本质和内涵，给出恰当的

翻译词汇。

因此，推荐使用“信波”作为Cyber的中译文。进而形成一系列

概念，如：信波空间、信波控制、信波攻击、信波战等等。

这个翻译，有三个特点：其一，表达了Cyber的信息本质，概念

可信；其二：揭示了Cyber的作用原理近似于物理学的波，意思通达；

其三，信波，即信息波，中文本身就有内涵，发音也有七八分相似，

是为小雅。

2016年1月8日星期五

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