Analysis of Translation Skills of Chinese Dish Name

China is a country that attaches great importance to names,honor,and prestige.The set phrase,to achieve both fame and wealth,gives the true meaning of the word fame.Chinese food culture has a long history,and forms a variety of dishes,These Chinese dishes are popular with the whole world.English translation of Chinese dish can be found everywhere in China nowadays.For example:restaurants have bilingual menus;cook books are translated into English;food is discussed and recommended in English on newspaper,magazines and TV programs.Some of the English equivalents are so wordy or awkward that they read like recipes instead of names.Some are confusing and misleading.The problem is that some dish names embedded with cultural connotation are still translated literally,which makes the menus unintelligible and the target language reader lost chances to enjoy Chinese food culture.Owing to these features of the Chinese culinary culture,the names of Chinese food are kaleidoscopic and deny easy forms.

The Contrasts of English Sentences and Chinese Sentences and Translation Skills

Since the opening-up policy was carried out in 1979, every facility of social modernized construction has developed at high speed; meanwhile, the need of English is increased year by year. The occasion and scope of using it are expanded with the communications among countries. Therefore, English has become the generally international language in our country; in particular, translation plays an important and irreplaceable part in English to convey information. This paper aims to introduce the contrasts of English sentences and Chinese sentences and discuss some skills of translating each other. Though it is not complete and authoritative, yet it may help some people to understand the differences between two languages and to grasp some practical skills.

The Skills of E-C Translation： based on Hillary Clinton＇s Concession Speech

Translation is a conversion process, which helps transform a language message into another language. In the conversion of English and Chinese, mastering and understanding some skills of translation can help us better grasp and understand how to transform English into Chinese. Based on the source text of Hillary Clinton's concession speech and the Chinese target text, the thesis studies the techniques of English translation and concludes the skills of translation. The purpose is to help students master a variety of English translation methods, to accumulate English communication skills and to improve the comprehensive level of English.

Practice Analysis on the Teaching Theory and Skills of English Translation

As a universal language, English makes a better communication between China and the developed countries;English language teaching has become increasingly important in more and more Chinese Schools. At the beginning, when Chinese students start to learn a second language, they need to translate the second language such as English into Chinese in the first hand, and this procedure will help them to understand and learn English better. For English language translation teachers, they need to research and create the suitable, effective method of learning English translation for most students constantly in order to improve the English translation learning efficiency of the Chinese students. The local culture of China is quite different from the culture of other English speaking countries. When our Chinese students study English language translation, at the same time, they need to learn the different culture in different countries and learn how to accept and face up the cultural background difference between our country and the other English speaking countries. In the meantime, during the time of teaching English translation, the English translation subject teachers need to guide the students to learn and understand the difference in practice, and help them to establish a comprehensive and correct idea of learning English translation through teaching correct and different translation skills.

Core Skills in the Development of English-Chinese Translation

English to Chinese translation skill is a comprehensive skill that professionals work hard to develop. Most people know that every English learners have general skills on English-Chinese translation. The way we read, understand, absorb, analyze, and transfer information is what makes each translation different. This dissertation addresses the question of what core skills a professional translator should have when performing English to Chinese translation in professional fields. Verbal English and translation are totally two different skill sets. However, in English-Chinese translation, it needs various kinds of skill sets in different aspects in order to achieve a seamless translation.

An Analysis of the Translation Skills in Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out from the Perspective of Skopos Theory

Skopos Theory is the kernel part of functionalism, holding that the skopos rule is the top-ranking rule that justifies the overall translation process. This paper attempts to make an analysis of the C-E translation of Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out from the perspectives of Skopos Theory, and intends to explore the impact of translating skopos on the translator's choice of translating skills as well as the possible reasons behind them.

Summary of English Translation Skills

In this regard, we attach importance to English knowledge learning as one of the key teaching objectives in different teaching stages of small, medium and large. English translation is the key content of English teaching, and translation is an important part of English translation. How to master the knowledge and skills of English translation is still a key issue that we need to pay attention to in English learning. By summarizing the author′s translation skills in English learning, this study explores the key and difficult issues in English translation based on the importance of the main points of English translation, and summarizes the skills of translation to provide reference for students to learn English. Suggest.

An Analysis of English-Chinese Translation Methods and Skills of UCP600 under the Three Rules of Skopos Theory

Documentary credits play an important role in China's foreign trade settlements and UCP600 is the current international uniform customs and practice for documentary credits. This paper takes UCP600 as the analytical text and combines the three rules of Skopos Theory to analyze and summarize English-Chinese translation methods and skills of UCP600, aiming to help translators especially participated in foreign trade, to have a better understanding of E-C translation of UCP600 and give them some inspira-tions on understanding and translating texts similiar to UCP600, hence making settlements of documentary credits smoothier in Chinese foreign trade.

Chinese-English Translation of Advertisements

This paper is on the Chinese-English advertisement translation. It gives people an orderly discussion with examples in three parts:the problems in current advertisement translation, the causes of these problems, essential steps of making the Chinese-English translation of advertisement onto an appropriate way. This paper also suggests the principles of Chinese-English advertisement translation:natural, precise and understandable.

Analysis on Application of Pragmatic Translation Skill Structure Model in Translation Teaching

As the core content of pragmatic translation teaching research,pragmatic translation skill is closely correlated with translation technique and operation field.Viewed from the current English teaching situation in colleges and universities,translation skill is not cultivated as an independent language competence.Moreover,its research is insufficient.On account of this,the author first gives an introduction to pragmatic translation skill and pragmatic translation skill structure model in this paper.On this basis,the author also analyzes the application of pragmatic translation skill structure model in translation teaching.

Cultural Vacancy in Chinese-English Translation and Its Compensation Strategies

Attempts are made to explore the relationship between culture and translation, reasons are illustrated for the phenomenonof cultural vacancy and compensation methods for cultural vacancy are demonstrated in Chinese-English translation. Such strate-gies as literal translation, liberal translation, transliteration, annotation and cultural omission are of great guidance to our transla-tion practice.

Peer Feedback in Chinese-English Paragraph Translation Practice:A Case Study

This pilot research is to explore the efficacy of peer feedback in translation teaching and learning in the context where College English Test has great influence on university’s language teaching and learning through a case study.It will shed some light on pedagogical thinking in the context of Chinese ESL teaching and learning.

Research on the Translation of Chinese Twenty-Four Solar Terms: A Skopos Theory Perspective

In the current era of rapid development, excellent culture needs to be inherited and spread to the world. Therefore, it is essential to consider the translation of the 24 solar terms. China persists in the principle of the Belt and Road Initiative, adheres to the guidance of Chinese traditional excellent culture goes global, and enhances the influence of Chinese culture on the words, the culture of the words communicating and developing constantly. This paper analyzes and compares translations of different versions, explores the necessity of translation strategies for translation, then summaries the translation strategy, ultimately figures out the development space, ted texts and promote the exchange of Chinese and foreign cultures.

On Errors in Chinese-English Translation of Public Signs

With more attentions being paid to the research of the Chinese-English translation of public signs,errors and mistakes can be frequently observed in some places and occasions due to different cultural backgrounds as well as diversified function of public signs.For that reason,the author venture to analyses the problems existing in Chinese-English translation of public signs on the level of linguistic and culture such as spelling errors,harsh tones and so on.Meanwhile the author offer some strategies and principles of translation based on the communicative translation method and as well as the quality of translators perspectives,including the methods of functional priority,of utilization of Pin Yin and so on,hoping to optimize the quality of the public signs translation so as to publicize China and promote the image of China and arose the attention and awareness of the translators.

On Application of the “Sameness Relation” in Chinese-English Translation Practice

The theme of this article is mainly to explore the application of the"Sameness Relation"into the Chinese-English trans-lation practice.In view of the theoretical guidance of sameness relation into the practice of the Chinese-English translation,this pa-per first points out a liable mistake in Chinese-English translation due to an inadequate knowledge of the"Sense Relations",andthen defines the linguistic term"sense relations","Sameness relation""and relevant "Semantics".Next this text continues to ana-lyze how the sameness relations are applied into the translation from the five main aspects.The reference and help of the samenessrelations finally demonstrate the realistic importance of the semantics to the Chinese-English translation,attracting much wider at-tention to other linguistic theories which is great of value to Chinese-English translation.

On the Translation Techniques of English Attributive Clause

Translation is the use of one language to another language;this is expressed by the contents of the re-express.For the English-Chinese translation,the attributive clause translation is the most important.However,the English attributive clause is divided into restrictive and non-restrictive attributive clauses.In the translation process,it should be based on its structure and meaning.To take appropriate translation,get rid of restrictions on sentence structure so that the translation is equal to the original as much as possible.In this paper,the translation skills and samples have been used to further express the attributive clause to the readers.

On the Translation of Chinese Four-character Idioms Loaded with Color Words

Chinese four-character idioms loaded with color words are the typical symbol of the Chinese culture and their transition is important to Chinese-English dictionaries.The quality of the dictionary and users' understanding are affected by the correctness and appropriateness of their translation.This paper mainly focuses on the translation of four-character Chinese idioms with color words in New Century Chinese-English Dictionary.The research shows that there are three strategies for Chinese fourcharacter idioms loaded with color words in the dictionaries:literal translation,free translation and the integration of literal translation and annotative translation.

A“Projectized”Approach to EST Translation Textbook Compilation

Setting out from the shortfalls of present EST translation textbooks,i.e.,similar structure and lacking diversity,we survey teachers and students of EST translation,and find problems regarding example choosing and lack of emphasis on CAT technology.Based on translation theory and translation talent training theory,a new“projectized”approach to compiling EST translation textbooks is put forward,which advocates that translation textbooks construct an environment with an initiator,consignor,original writer,translator,user,and receiver.The approach is expected to promote the practical value of EST translation textbooks and empower them with the ability required by the translation industry.