Question

三体的英文版中，智子是如何翻译的

Answer 1

智子译成了Sophon
原文是：
......"No. That's a large particle accelerator still under construction. The plans for building a second space fleet have been scrapped. All resources are now devoted to Project Sophon(*42)."

[Translator's Note(*42); There is a pun in Chinese between the word for a proton, zhizi (质子), and the word and the word for a sophon, zhizi(智子)]
soph- 表示智慧，比如：sophist 指智者、诡辩家；后缀 -on 表示“粒子”，比如：离子（ion），中子（neutron），电子（electron），质子（proton）等。所以，可以说，这是译者创造的词，但创造得非常巧妙，不失原意。