『雪国』の日本語らしい表現とその中国語訳

This is the fourth paper in a series of studies on SNOW COUNTRY, written by Yasunari Kawabata. In this paper we research deeply on the Japanesque expressions used by Kawabata.

There are some "ように (youni)" in SNOW COUNTRY which cannot be translated directly into Chinese. For example,

「そう?」と、女は彼の指を握るとそのまま離さないで手をひくように階段を上って行った。

山袴の腰をひょいと捻って、娘が稲の束を投げ上げると、高くのぼった男が器用に受け取って、扱くように振り分けては、竿に懸けていった。物慣れて無心の動きが調子よく繰り返されていた。

「……私酔ってる?」と、倒れるように鏡台の両端をつかまえて覗きこむと、しゃんと裾を捌いて出て行った。

These "ように (youni)", which are underlined in the above three quotations cannot be translated directly into "好像". Why is this? We propose the reason in this paper.

In addition, we analyze the difference between "ようだ (youda)" and "そうだ (souda)", considering the Chinese translations of Japanese aspects, and as a result we found a lot of Japanese linguistic factors in these expressions. Of course, these Japanesque expressions in SNOW COUNTRY are very helpful for foreigners trying to understand the essence of the Japanese language. Likewise, the Chinese translations are also beneficial for Japanese attempting to understand the characteristics of Chinese.