汉英翻译的名词肿胀症

The Noun plague in Chinese-English Translation

平卡姆女士在其著作《中式英语之鉴》中指出"名词肿胀症",主要是受汉语思维的影响而产生的。克服的方法包括读懂原文,去掉内容空泛的词语,并注意搭配。文章一分为二地分析了此书出版后产生的一些争议,赞同她提出的翻译是一门技能而不是一门科学的观点。

The noun plague,which Ms Pinkham points out in her work The Translator＇s Guide to chinglish, results from the mode of thinking in Chinese. The solution includes an intelligent comprehension of the original, elimination of the vague words and paying attention to the connotation. The article analyses some disputes about the book in a dialectical way and approves of the author＇ s idea that translation is not a science but a craft.