巴斯奈特(Susan Bassentt)曾提出,20世纪70年代翻译研究的关键词是“历史”。对此,勒弗菲尔(Itamar Even-Zohar)提出了翻译的多元系统理论。多元系统理论着眼于特定历史时期文学翻译的描述性研究。针对个案,多元系统理论关注在特定的多元系统中,文学译本如何占据了“中心”位置,以及在文学多元系统中文学翻译有怎样的重要性。 Susan Bassentt proposed that the key word for translation studies in the 1970s was “history.” In this regard, Itamar Even-Zohar proposed the theory of multiple systems in translation. Multivariate system theory focuses on the descriptive research of literary translation in a specific historical period. In the individual case, Multivariate Systems Theory focuses on how literary translations occupy a “central” position in a given pluralistic system and how important is literary translation in literary pluralism.