关于本网站（About This Site）
本网站的开发是为了帮助基督教译者找到与圣经,神学,教会历史,哲学,古代近东考古学和其他宗教主题有关的英文术语的适当翻译。本网站提供超过三万个术语和名称的翻译。这个网站的一个目标是试图使术语的翻译标准化，特别是名称。我们经常在各种书籍和网站上发现同一个名字的各种翻译，有时它们彼此之间有很大的不同。在某些情况下，这已经造成了很大的混乱。本网站试图为新教基督徒解决这个问题，但希望这也能帮助来自其他传统的翻译者。一个主要的挑战是，中国大陆的译者开发了新的译名方法，与台湾和香港的译名方法不同，而大部分基督教书籍都是在台湾和香港翻译的。从历史上看，大多数基督教书籍都是在大陆以外的地方翻译的，当大陆人使用较新的翻译方法时，这些新的翻译方法与大多数现有翻译书籍中使用的旧方法不同。更为复杂的是，大陆和非大陆的翻译都没有始终如一地遵循相同的标准，尽管可以看出大陆和非大陆的不同的传统。罗马天主教徒往往有自己的翻译。而使问题更加复杂的是，许多西方人的名字都有多种拼写,发音和（如果来自非英语的西方国家）英语化的形式；许多人在这些其他不同的名字形式之上，还有常用的拉丁文名字，因此决定哪些声音需要用汉字来表示，对译者来说往往是困难的。我们，即这个网站的创建者，试图尽最大努力，从不同的来源（代表着大陆和非大陆的翻译传统）汇编各种术语的翻译，并在这个网站上列出，供翻译者和那些想找到某个术语的原文或标准翻译的人参考。在这些术语中，我们尽力选择那些尊重代表非大陆译者传统的翻译方式，但也特别考虑到某一名称的翻译在互联网上的使用频率。我们对标准印刷品中使用的译名给予更大的重视，但当互联网上目前使用的译名明显比这些印刷品中的译名更受欢迎时，本网站则遵循现代惯例。除非我们无法找到任何其他合理的现有翻译，否则只有在极其罕见的情况下，我们才会发明新的方法来翻译术语。我们理解有些人对本网站上的一些标准翻译不满意，并承认在某些情况下，如罗马天主教的翻译，有其他教会传统所特有的翻译。那些被列为“其他,非标准或错误”的翻译并不总是错误的或不合适的，这取决于上下文和特定受众。然而，我们希望译者能越来越多地使用本网站的译文，或在他们认为有更好的方法来翻译术语时向我们提出建议。我们不认为不断改变本网页的标准翻译方法以适应每个译者的心血来潮是符合所有译者的最佳利益的，但我们承认我们是有缺陷的，本网站肯定有许多地方可以改进。如果你有修改标准翻译的建议，请提供和说明该修改的理由。我们欢迎对其他术语和非标准或错误的翻译提出建议，也欢迎在术语的定义/注释栏中加入对译者的其他提示。我们希望能不断地更新网站，使其在未来的许多年里继续成为一个有用的工具。
我们用于编纂该数据库的印刷品来源包括：《基督教圣经与神学词典》,《圣经新辞典》,《当代神学辞典》,《英汉宗教字典》,《基督教大辞典》,《英汉神学名词辞典》,《新约研究透视》,《证主出版的系列》,《基督教二千年史》,《教会史》（雪莱 Bruce Shelly）,《基督教会史》（华尔克Williston Walker，原版）。我们使用了许多网站和在线工具，包括：https://baike.baidu.com/, https://zh.wikipedia.org/, https://www.google.com/ , https://translate.google.com/, http://dict.cn/ , https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary, https://www.ccccn.org/book/html/162/content.html.
This site was developed to assist Christian translators find appropriate translations for English terms related to the subject of Bible, theology, church history, philosophy, ancient near-eastern archeology and other religions. This website provides translations of more than 30,000 terms and names. One goal of this site is to attempt to standardize translations of terms, especially names. Too often we have found various translations of the same name on various books and websites which radically differ from one another. In some cases, this has caused a significant amount of confusion. This website seeks to address this issue for protestant Christians but hopes that this helps translators from other traditions as well. One major challenge is that mainland Chinese translators have developed new methods of translating names which are different than what is used in Taiwan and Hong Kong where most of the translation of Christian books occurs. Historically, most Christian books have been translated outside the mainland and when mainlanders use newer translation methods, these new translations differ from older ones used in most of the existing translated books. Complicating matters more, neither mainland nor non-mainland translations consistently follow the same standards, though distinct traditions can be observed. Roman Catholics often have their own translation. And complicating matters even further, the names of many westerners have multiple spellings, pronunciations, and anglicized forms in addition to their original language spellings if they are from non-English speaking western countries; many people have commonly used Latin names on top of these other various forms of their names, and so deciding what sounds need to be represented in Chinese characters is often difficult for translators. We, the creators of this website, have sought to do our best to compile various translations of terms from different sources representing both mainland and non-mainland translation traditions and list them on this website for the reference of both translators and those wanting to find the original language or standard translation of a given term. Out of these, we have done our best to choose terms which are respectful of older translations that represent the tradition of the non-mainland translators but take into special account the frequency of the use of a translation of a name on the Internet. We give greater weight to translations used in standard printed texts, but when it is obvious that translations currently being used on the Internet are overwhelmingly more popular than ones in these printed materials, the website follows modern convention. Only in exceedingly rare instances have we invented new ways to translate terms unless we were unable to find any other reasonable existing translation. We understand that some will be unhappy with some of the standard translations found on this site and recognize that, in some cases, such as Roman Catholic translations, there are translations peculiar to other church traditions. Those translations listed as “other, non-standard or erroneous” are not always erroneous or inappropriate depending on the context and the particular audience for whom the translations are made. However, we hope that translators will increasingly use the translations on this website or make suggestions to us when they believe there is a better way to translate terms. We at the website do not believe that it is in the best interest of all translators to constantly change the standard translations to fit the whim of every translator, but do recognize that we are fallible and that there are certainly numerous places where this website can be improved. If you have suggestions for changes to standard translations, be prepared to justify that change. We welcome suggestions for additional terms and non-standard or erroneous translations, as well as other tips for translators that can be added to the definition/notes field of the term. We hope to be constantly updating the website so that it can continue to be a useful tool for many years to come.
Printed sources used to compile this database include: 《基督教圣经与神学词典》,《圣经新辞典》,《当代神学辞典》,《英汉宗教字典》,《基督教大辞典》,《英汉神学名词辞典》,《新约研究透视》,《证主出版的系列》,《基督教二千年史》,《教会史》（雪莱 Bruce Shelly）,《基督教会史》（华尔克Williston Walker，原版）。Many websites and on-line tools were used, including: https://baike.baidu.com/, https://zh.wikipedia.org/, https://www.google.com/ , https://translate.google.com/, http://dict.cn/ , https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary, https://www.ccccn.org/book/html/162/content.html.