埃兹拉·庞德(Ezra Weston Loomis Pound)在厄内斯特·费诺罗萨(Ernest Fenollosa)的笔记基础上,整理、翻译、挑选了十九首中国古诗,编辑并于1915年在伦敦出版了Cathay。译诗集在英国随即引起轰动,并促进了英美意象派诗歌的发展。在关于这本译诗集的中文研究论文中,将诗集名CATHAY翻译成为“神州”“华夏”和“国泰”。本文旨在厘清翻译过程中CATHAY一词的选择以及“回译”过程中“国泰”“华夏”“神州”的用词选择。并追溯到CATHAY在文学传播中的文化涵义。 Ezra Weston Loomis Pound compiled, translated and selected nineteen Chinese ancient poems on the basis of Ernest Fenollosa’s notes, edited and published in 1915 in London Published Cathay. The translation of poetry in the United Kingdom immediately caused a sensation and promoted the development of British and American imagist poetry. In a Chinese research paper on this collection of poems, CATHAY translates the poem CATHAY into “Shenzhou” “Huaxia” and “Guotai”. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the choice of CATHAY in translation and the choice of terms in “Cathay”, “Huaxia”, “Shenzhou” in the process of “Back Translation”. And traces CATHAY’s cultural connotation in the spread of literature.