Since the 1950s, different English translated versions of Cold Mountain poems have come out in succession. These versions, due to different factors, present different characteristics. Thus, by comparing the the differ...Since the 1950s, different English translated versions of Cold Mountain poems have come out in succession. These versions, due to different factors, present different characteristics. Thus, by comparing the the different translated versions of the same original poems, translator＇s translation skills and the unique characteristics of these versions will be discovered. It is of great significance as they will illustrate the translators＇ reception of the original as the first group of receptors and these different characteristics will determine the contribution of these version to the reception of Cold Mountain poems abroad.This paper is an attempt to study the translation of one of the most famous Cold Mountain＇s poems and illustrate their characteristics.展开更多
This paper is a contrastive study of two translated versions of an essay which are very different in language and register style. It comes to the conclusion that the translator has to follow the fundamental translatio...This paper is a contrastive study of two translated versions of an essay which are very different in language and register style. It comes to the conclusion that the translator has to follow the fundamental translation principle of functional equivalence, that is, to faithfully reproduce the linguistic and stylistic features of the original, while retaining the verbal beauty of the original as much as possible. Through contrastive analysis, this paper also argues that stylistic features should be consistent with the choice of word, syntactic structures, rhetorical devices, and overall textual layout.展开更多
The semantic domain, as the region of a word or a sememe occupied in the semantic field, can provide theoretical guidance for the word selection of the translation in the English translation of the ancient codes and r...The semantic domain, as the region of a word or a sememe occupied in the semantic field, can provide theoretical guidance for the word selection of the translation in the English translation of the ancient codes and records. With the two English versions of the ancient code of science and technology ＂Exploitation of the Works of Nature＂, by introducing the concept of the semantic domain, the author divides the biased errors in the translation of the English versions of ＂Exploitation of the Works of Nature＂ into three categories of the migration of the semantic domain, the reduction of the semantic domain and the expansion of the semantic domain, which are illustrated respectively. We find that the boundaries of the semantic domains of the words in the scientific and technological codes and books are usually clear. Therefore, when selecting the translation words, we must choose the foreign words with the same semantic field, to prevent the unnecessary translation errors, which will affect the overseas dissemination of the scientific and technological classics.展开更多
The study of modal auxiliary verbs has been done by comparing modal auxiliary verbs in English with the ones in Chinese qualitatively and quantitatively. The modals in English and in Chinese are statistically analyzed...The study of modal auxiliary verbs has been done by comparing modal auxiliary verbs in English with the ones in Chinese qualitatively and quantitatively. The modals in English and in Chinese are statistically analyzed through their forms and meanings. The data consists of 50 pieces of Chinese prose with their 50 English translation versions called corpus A and 50 pieces of English prose with their Chinese translation versions called corpus B, altogether 200 articles, which represent a type of discourse that is rich in modal auxiliary verbs both in English and in Chinese The major findings are as follows： （1） The three criteria： inversion, negation, and the use of pro-forms can be used to define both English and Chinese auxiliaries; （2） the modals of both languages can be analyzed within the same semantic categories： volition, probability, and necessity; （3） Chinese epistemic modals can have inversion patterns; （4） the negative forms of Chinese modals are more complex than those of English modals; and （5） the statistic analysis shows that the modals in probability category both in English and in Chinese are used much more often compared to the other two categories： volition and necessity and that deontic modals are used much fewer in both languages to express necessity展开更多
Text alignment is crucial to the accuracy of MT （Machine Translation） systems, some NLP （Natural Language Processing） tools or any other text processing tasks requiring bilingual data. This research proposes a lan...Text alignment is crucial to the accuracy of MT （Machine Translation） systems, some NLP （Natural Language Processing） tools or any other text processing tasks requiring bilingual data. This research proposes a language independent sentence alignment approach based on Polish （not position-sensitive language） to English experiments. This alignment approach was developed on the TED （Translanguage English Database） talks corpus, but can be used for any text domain or language pair. The proposed approach implements various heuristics for sentence recognition. Some of them value synonyms and semantic text structure analysis as a part of additional information. Minimization of data loss was ensured. The solution is compared to other sentence alignment implementations. Also an improvement in MT system score with text processed with the described tool is shown.展开更多
This article focuses on two English translations of Ji Yun＇s 纪昀 eigh- teenth-century collection of ＂stories of the strange,＂ Random Jottings at the Cottage of Close Scrutiny （Yuewei caotang biji 阅微草堂笔记）. ...This article focuses on two English translations of Ji Yun＇s 纪昀 eigh- teenth-century collection of ＂stories of the strange,＂ Random Jottings at the Cottage of Close Scrutiny （Yuewei caotang biji 阅微草堂笔记）. The translation done by Leo Tak-hung Chan is set within the context of his 1998 sinological monograph, while David Pollard＇s recent translation, published in 2014, stands as an edited volume of translation oriented toward the general reader. Referring to textual and paratextual elements in these two translations, I hope to show how the ＂setting＂ of a translation modulates its tone and message, which in turn unfolds with the selection, style and overall structure of the translation. I also draw from an actual dialog between Leo Chan and David Pollard, which evolves around the various aspects in translating Ji Yun＇s work and the more general issues in sinology and translating Chinese literature. The dialog between the two translators of Ji Yun further illustrates the translators＇ approaches to the original text, their mediating efforts toward crosscultural readability and literary felicity and specifically, how the state of mind of a translator might come into play with the ＂flavor＂ of a translation.展开更多
文摘Since the 1950s, different English translated versions of Cold Mountain poems have come out in succession. These versions, due to different factors, present different characteristics. Thus, by comparing the the different translated versions of the same original poems, translator＇s translation skills and the unique characteristics of these versions will be discovered. It is of great significance as they will illustrate the translators＇ reception of the original as the first group of receptors and these different characteristics will determine the contribution of these version to the reception of Cold Mountain poems abroad.This paper is an attempt to study the translation of one of the most famous Cold Mountain＇s poems and illustrate their characteristics.
文摘This paper is a contrastive study of two translated versions of an essay which are very different in language and register style. It comes to the conclusion that the translator has to follow the fundamental translation principle of functional equivalence, that is, to faithfully reproduce the linguistic and stylistic features of the original, while retaining the verbal beauty of the original as much as possible. Through contrastive analysis, this paper also argues that stylistic features should be consistent with the choice of word, syntactic structures, rhetorical devices, and overall textual layout.
文摘The semantic domain, as the region of a word or a sememe occupied in the semantic field, can provide theoretical guidance for the word selection of the translation in the English translation of the ancient codes and records. With the two English versions of the ancient code of science and technology ＂Exploitation of the Works of Nature＂, by introducing the concept of the semantic domain, the author divides the biased errors in the translation of the English versions of ＂Exploitation of the Works of Nature＂ into three categories of the migration of the semantic domain, the reduction of the semantic domain and the expansion of the semantic domain, which are illustrated respectively. We find that the boundaries of the semantic domains of the words in the scientific and technological codes and books are usually clear. Therefore, when selecting the translation words, we must choose the foreign words with the same semantic field, to prevent the unnecessary translation errors, which will affect the overseas dissemination of the scientific and technological classics.
文摘The study of modal auxiliary verbs has been done by comparing modal auxiliary verbs in English with the ones in Chinese qualitatively and quantitatively. The modals in English and in Chinese are statistically analyzed through their forms and meanings. The data consists of 50 pieces of Chinese prose with their 50 English translation versions called corpus A and 50 pieces of English prose with their Chinese translation versions called corpus B, altogether 200 articles, which represent a type of discourse that is rich in modal auxiliary verbs both in English and in Chinese The major findings are as follows： （1） The three criteria： inversion, negation, and the use of pro-forms can be used to define both English and Chinese auxiliaries; （2） the modals of both languages can be analyzed within the same semantic categories： volition, probability, and necessity; （3） Chinese epistemic modals can have inversion patterns; （4） the negative forms of Chinese modals are more complex than those of English modals; and （5） the statistic analysis shows that the modals in probability category both in English and in Chinese are used much more often compared to the other two categories： volition and necessity and that deontic modals are used much fewer in both languages to express necessity
文摘Text alignment is crucial to the accuracy of MT （Machine Translation） systems, some NLP （Natural Language Processing） tools or any other text processing tasks requiring bilingual data. This research proposes a language independent sentence alignment approach based on Polish （not position-sensitive language） to English experiments. This alignment approach was developed on the TED （Translanguage English Database） talks corpus, but can be used for any text domain or language pair. The proposed approach implements various heuristics for sentence recognition. Some of them value synonyms and semantic text structure analysis as a part of additional information. Minimization of data loss was ensured. The solution is compared to other sentence alignment implementations. Also an improvement in MT system score with text processed with the described tool is shown.
文摘This article focuses on two English translations of Ji Yun＇s 纪昀 eigh- teenth-century collection of ＂stories of the strange,＂ Random Jottings at the Cottage of Close Scrutiny （Yuewei caotang biji 阅微草堂笔记）. The translation done by Leo Tak-hung Chan is set within the context of his 1998 sinological monograph, while David Pollard＇s recent translation, published in 2014, stands as an edited volume of translation oriented toward the general reader. Referring to textual and paratextual elements in these two translations, I hope to show how the ＂setting＂ of a translation modulates its tone and message, which in turn unfolds with the selection, style and overall structure of the translation. I also draw from an actual dialog between Leo Chan and David Pollard, which evolves around the various aspects in translating Ji Yun＇s work and the more general issues in sinology and translating Chinese literature. The dialog between the two translators of Ji Yun further illustrates the translators＇ approaches to the original text, their mediating efforts toward crosscultural readability and literary felicity and specifically, how the state of mind of a translator might come into play with the ＂flavor＂ of a translation.
