关键词: 术语翻译, 译名变异, 生态翻译学, 翻译生态环境, 原语生态, 译语生态, 翻译群落

Abstract: Translation is one of the most important reasons for the increase of variation in the scientific and technological terms. From the perspective of ecotranslatology, variation of translated terms may be involved with the geographic and diachronic changes in the translational ecoenvironment, the contrast between sourcetext ecology and targettext ecology, the different study areas translators coming from, the different cultural community they represent, as well as the their disagreement in different translational idea. These variations will exist forever in the terminological system and never disappear. Therefore, the best way of reducing the variation and standardizing the translation is to survive the fittest by means of natural selection.

Key words: terminological translation, variation of translated term, ecotranslatology, translational ecoenvironment, sourcetext ecology, targettext ecology, translation community