关键词: 直译, 翻译学, 矛盾

Abstract: Zhiyi, or literal translation, as one core concept in translation studies, has been generally considered to be a kind of translation skill. Actually, literal translation, like a living organism, keeps growing and evolving in contrast to any other similar concepts in order to bear out that literal translation, as one part of contradiction, is rejuvenating and full of its vigor, which is achieved by competition and differentiation along with other pertinent concepts in the same contradiction whole.

Key words: literal translation, translation studies, contradiction