关键词: 连贯原则, 博物馆解说词, 书法审美术语, 劲字词组, 翻译

Abstract: Based on the parallel corpus of “The Ancient Art of Writing”, the calligraphy exhibition of the National Palace Museum of Taipei, the paper, with jin （劲） phrases as an example, discusses the translation of calligraphic aesthetic terms in museum introductions and makes a critical reading of the translation by the National Palace Museum of Taipei in the light of intertextual coherence and intratextual coherence in the framework of the Skopos Theory. The componential analysis shows that the aesthetic terms in the same semantic field such as qiujin （遒劲） cangjin （苍劲）and so on have some subtle differences in aesthetic meaning. The translation by the National Palace Museum of Taipei makes the basic aesthetic meaning clear to the Englishspeaking visitors, and thus is adequate in terms of intratextual coherence, but the delicate difference in these terms are not fully transferred, and thus there is still some room for improvement in terms of intertextual coherence.

Key words: coherence rules, museum introductions, calligraphic aesthetic terms, jin phrases, translation