“意识形态”(Ideology)这个外来词,如今差不多成了我们的日常用语。据说,当年郭沫若曾译为“意德沃罗基”,那倒颇像个俄国人的名字了;而海外的林毓生先生则主张将之译成“意缔牢结”,这样,意义和声音倒是巧妙地结合起来了,只可惜,不太像中国词。事实上,我们对于这个耳熟能详的概念,正像对意识形态本身一样知之甚少。 The loanword of “ideology” is now almost our everyday language. It is said that when Guo Moruo was once translated as “Yide Voroki”, it was rather like a Russian name; while overseas Mr. Lin Yusheng advocated the translation of “Italian Yung Luojie” so that the meaning and the sound were Cleverly combined, but unfortunately, not quite like Chinese words. In fact, our understanding of this familiar concept is just as poorly understood as the ideology itself.