论原作之隐形

文体方面的变形不仅将原文结构或文体隐身于译作之后，同时还可以导致风格的变形。风格上的隐形，可以发生在语言的各个层面，有时甚至是一个词的添减便改变了整个面貌。如：

It was even twy light when he entred the cittie of Antium, and many people met him in the streets, but no man knew him. So he went directly to Tullus Aufidius house, and when he came thither, he got him up straight to the chimney harthe, and sat him downe, and spake not a worde to any man, his face all muffled over. They of the house spying him, wondered what he should be, and yet they durst not byd him rise. For, ill-favoredly muffled up and disguised as he was, yet there appeared a certaine majestie in his countenance, and in his silence: Whereupon they went to Tullus who was at supper, to tell him of the straunge disguising of this man.（十六世纪英语）（王克非，2000：292）

这是英国十六世纪文艺复兴时期的散文译家诺斯（Thomas North）从阿米欧的法文转达译普鲁塔克的《希腊罗马贵人传略》中写柯里奥兰纳斯一书的开场白。风格既无阿米欧的古典，也不像原作者普鲁塔克，而是一段颇具诺斯色彩的生动活泼、布满戏剧色彩的新篇。其中，“They of the house spying him”中spying是诺斯为原作所加的颇为戏剧化的一笔，而文中新增的副词ill-favoredly亦使整段译文更富神秘色彩。