Different from Greek myth,Chinese myth is scattered among many kinds of ancient books such as The Classic of Mountains and Seas,Chuci,Huainanzi,etc.There is no Chinese classic that records mythology like the Odyssey a...Different from Greek myth,Chinese myth is scattered among many kinds of ancient books such as The Classic of Mountains and Seas,Chuci,Huainanzi,etc.There is no Chinese classic that records mythology like the Odyssey and Iliad.After the 20th century,Chinese scholars began to collect and study myths.In the English world,missionaries began to translate and introduce Chinese myths from the middle and late 19th century,and then Chinese scholars and sinologists have been translating and introducing Chinese myths.At present,the English translation of Chinese mythology has made a lot of achievements,but there are also many misunderstandings.This paper explores the current situation of the English translation of Chinese mythology by analyzing several well-known translations.展开更多
Due to the long history of China,the special features of the Chinese Internet catchwords and the few translations of the Chinese Internet catchwords at home and abroad,it is very hard for the foreigners to comprehend ...Due to the long history of China,the special features of the Chinese Internet catchwords and the few translations of the Chinese Internet catchwords at home and abroad,it is very hard for the foreigners to comprehend the Chinese Internet catchwords.Functional Equivalence Theory is put forward by an American translation theorist,Eugene A.Nida,which casts great influence on the translation circle.This paper applies the literal translation and the free translation to translate the Chinese Internet catchwords in the light of functional equivalence theory.展开更多
The Chinese food is well-known in the world as one important part of traditional Chinese culture, which the foreign tourists would like very much to sample and enjoy whenever they visit China. Generally speaking, the ...The Chinese food is well-known in the world as one important part of traditional Chinese culture, which the foreign tourists would like very much to sample and enjoy whenever they visit China. Generally speaking, the foreign tourists also want to make sure, how and with what raw material the Chinese food is cooked while they enjoy it. So the English translation of Chinese menus plays a key role in spreading the tranditional Chinese culture. This paper attempts to explain to readers that: 1)the demands on the English translation of Chinese menus; 2)how to set about translating the Chinese menus; 3)the methods for the English translation of Chinese menus.展开更多
Translation is not only the process of transforming langue form, but also the process of interacting one thinking means and concept with another. Moreover, so as to ensure accuracy of translation, one needs to compreh...Translation is not only the process of transforming langue form, but also the process of interacting one thinking means and concept with another. Moreover, so as to ensure accuracy of translation, one needs to comprehend the sense of words in the source language correctly, and take appropriate approach to resolve the differences between Chinese and English through analyzing the causes. Therefore, this paper will study the differences of sense of words between English and Chinese in translation.展开更多
Due to the differences in living environments,customs etc.,vocabulary gap often appears in the process of English-Chinese translation.Understanding the causes of it and finding the ways to solve them are very important.
Comparative study between English and Chinese attributes has been a research hotspot.The differences between English and Chinese attributes are elaborated by examples and translation strategies of English and Chinese ...Comparative study between English and Chinese attributes has been a research hotspot.The differences between English and Chinese attributes are elaborated by examples and translation strategies of English and Chinese attributes are discussed in this paper,from which the implications for translation teaching are stated at the same time.展开更多
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, essen...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.展开更多
The text have an in-depth discussion of the non-linguistic factors on the English-Chinese Translation of humor,and according to different types of humor,summarized the corresponding translation strategies,including th...The text have an in-depth discussion of the non-linguistic factors on the English-Chinese Translation of humor,and according to different types of humor,summarized the corresponding translation strategies,including the naturalization,replacement and explanation.展开更多
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-En...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.展开更多
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 us...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.展开更多
The translation of Business English thereby gets more and more important with the international business communication getting increasingly frequent.This paper firstly analyzes the stylistic features of business Engli...The translation of Business English thereby gets more and more important with the international business communication getting increasingly frequent.This paper firstly analyzes the stylistic features of business English;secondly illustrates the guiding role of functional equivalence theory in business English translation and meanwhile explores the translation of business English guided by functional equivalence theory,trying to make this tentative study have the theoretical and practical meaning in business English translation.展开更多
The idiomatic phrase is equal to the phrase that people use frequently language in the world that had long and splendid history all contains large quantities of idiom. They form regular phrases and short sentences thr...The idiomatic phrase is equal to the phrase that people use frequently language in the world that had long and splendid history all contains large quantities of idiom. They form regular phrases and short sentences through long use and refinement in the development of language. The idiomatic phrases contain varied cultural information, embody a lot of cultural feature, and cultural background. The idiomatic phrases display distinct image and figure of speech, and they also have bright national characteristic and regional (local) color. The paper includes four parts. The first chapter is to introduce the generalization of idioms and translation, and the second part is to list four different definitions of idiom according to some translational experts, next step leads in classification and sources of idiom. The third chapter introduces some common strategies of idiomatic translation such as literal translation, literal translation plus notes, free translation, and the combination of literal and free translation. At last sum up the paper.展开更多
Nida＇ s Functional Equivalence Theory has made a great contribution to the translation industry, which means the translation should reach the functional equivalence between two languages rather than the rigid corresp...Nida＇ s Functional Equivalence Theory has made a great contribution to the translation industry, which means the translation should reach the functional equivalence between two languages rather than the rigid correspondence of the texts. Functional Equivalence Theory includes stylistic equivalence, glossary equivalence and passage equivalence. The literary work selected in this paper is a famous classic novel, Camel Xiangzi, in which the features of the language employed by author are fizll of＂Chinese characteristics.＂ Just because of the characteristics, the task is more difficult in the process of the wanslating. In this paper, it makes a contrastive analysis of the translations to the fourth chapter of Camel Xiangzi by using Nida＇s Functional Equivalence Theory. There are three kinds of English versions, which were selected from a Chinese-American translator Shi Xiaojing＇s translation Camel Xiangzi, American translator Evan King＇ s translation Rickshaw Boy and American translator Jean M.James＇ s translation Richshaw： the Novel Lo-t＇o Hsinang Tz~ Due to limited words, this paper mainly analyzes the novel from the glossary, the stylistic and the passage equivalence. The result is that Jean M.James＇ s translation maximizes to achieve Functional Equivalence Theory, it also tries to reach formal equivalence, and her Wanslafion compensates for lack of the theory. What＇ s more, it verifies the feasibility and directive significance in translation of functional equivalence.展开更多
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 throug...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.展开更多
Many translators always get into troubles in Mining English translation practice under the guidance of traditional translation principles.A suitable theory is necessary to serve as a guiding principle of translation p...Many translators always get into troubles in Mining English translation practice under the guidance of traditional translation principles.A suitable theory is necessary to serve as a guiding principle of translation practice.This paper tries to study the application of functional translation theories in Mining English translation,especially the application of text topology and skopos theory.This paper has carried on the preliminary research and exploration for Mining English translation techniques,in combination with specific examples in translation practices,and finally summed up the proper translation techniques for Mining English translation.展开更多
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 w...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.展开更多
With China's all-round social development,especially entering the 21century,the social economy,science and technology and also the language changes are in a fast speed.Particularly,the growth of the Chinese-specif...With China's all-round social development,especially entering the 21century,the social economy,science and technology and also the language changes are in a fast speed.Particularly,the growth of the Chinese-specific new words is much faster than any other periods.Along with the intercultural communication,the English translation of Chinese-specific new words has become a new research focus.Firstly,the paper is to introduce the growth background of the new lexical words,and then gives a definition and classifies them into the specific fields,after that the paper will discuss the two translation strategies-domestication and foreignization in translating the Chinese-specific new words to English.Comparing the strengthens and shortcomings of the two strategies,the paper draws a conclusion—regard the two translation strategies in a dialectical way.展开更多
On the basis of Halliday’s theory, this paper makes it clear that clause as the translation unit is operational in Chinese to English translation and expounds the application of clause as the translation unit with so...On the basis of Halliday’s theory, this paper makes it clear that clause as the translation unit is operational in Chinese to English translation and expounds the application of clause as the translation unit with some examples.展开更多
Translating is a cross-cultural activity,and value is an important element of it.Therefore,it is undoubtedly that value will play an important role in English-Chinese translation,which is a learned organization of rul...Translating is a cross-cultural activity,and value is an important element of it.Therefore,it is undoubtedly that value will play an important role in English-Chinese translation,which is a learned organization of rules for making choices and resolving conflicts.These rules may serve to teach us to distinguish right and wrong,good and evil,what can be done and what cannot be.Accordingly,in this thesis,the notable differences in values in English-Chinese translation will be firstly dealt with,and then the main presentations of the value differences in English-Chinese translation will be analyzed.Furthermore,some effective methods to solve value-bound problems in English-Chinese translation will be discussed.展开更多
This paper describes the design of CEMT-Ⅱ, an interactive Chinese-English machine translation system. Based on the CEMT-Ⅰsystem, CEMT-Ⅱwill be developed to have the ability to translate Chinese scientific documents...This paper describes the design of CEMT-Ⅱ, an interactive Chinese-English machine translation system. Based on the CEMT-Ⅰsystem, CEMT-Ⅱwill be developed to have the ability to translate Chinese scientific documents into English. Now an user-friendly interface has been worked out to solve various complex ambiguities. The Chinese user need not know English well since all the questions and choices are expressed in Chinese.展开更多
文摘Different from Greek myth,Chinese myth is scattered among many kinds of ancient books such as The Classic of Mountains and Seas,Chuci,Huainanzi,etc.There is no Chinese classic that records mythology like the Odyssey and Iliad.After the 20th century,Chinese scholars began to collect and study myths.In the English world,missionaries began to translate and introduce Chinese myths from the middle and late 19th century,and then Chinese scholars and sinologists have been translating and introducing Chinese myths.At present,the English translation of Chinese mythology has made a lot of achievements,but there are also many misunderstandings.This paper explores the current situation of the English translation of Chinese mythology by analyzing several well-known translations.
文摘Due to the long history of China,the special features of the Chinese Internet catchwords and the few translations of the Chinese Internet catchwords at home and abroad,it is very hard for the foreigners to comprehend the Chinese Internet catchwords.Functional Equivalence Theory is put forward by an American translation theorist,Eugene A.Nida,which casts great influence on the translation circle.This paper applies the literal translation and the free translation to translate the Chinese Internet catchwords in the light of functional equivalence theory.
文摘The Chinese food is well-known in the world as one important part of traditional Chinese culture, which the foreign tourists would like very much to sample and enjoy whenever they visit China. Generally speaking, the foreign tourists also want to make sure, how and with what raw material the Chinese food is cooked while they enjoy it. So the English translation of Chinese menus plays a key role in spreading the tranditional Chinese culture. This paper attempts to explain to readers that: 1)the demands on the English translation of Chinese menus; 2)how to set about translating the Chinese menus; 3)the methods for the English translation of Chinese menus.
文摘Translation is not only the process of transforming langue form, but also the process of interacting one thinking means and concept with another. Moreover, so as to ensure accuracy of translation, one needs to comprehend the sense of words in the source language correctly, and take appropriate approach to resolve the differences between Chinese and English through analyzing the causes. Therefore, this paper will study the differences of sense of words between English and Chinese in translation.
文摘Due to the differences in living environments,customs etc.,vocabulary gap often appears in the process of English-Chinese translation.Understanding the causes of it and finding the ways to solve them are very important.
文摘Comparative study between English and Chinese attributes has been a research hotspot.The differences between English and Chinese attributes are elaborated by examples and translation strategies of English and Chinese attributes are discussed in this paper,from which the implications for translation teaching are stated at the same time.
文摘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.
文摘The text have an in-depth discussion of the non-linguistic factors on the English-Chinese Translation of humor,and according to different types of humor,summarized the corresponding translation strategies,including the naturalization,replacement and explanation.
文摘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.
文摘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.
文摘The translation of Business English thereby gets more and more important with the international business communication getting increasingly frequent.This paper firstly analyzes the stylistic features of business English;secondly illustrates the guiding role of functional equivalence theory in business English translation and meanwhile explores the translation of business English guided by functional equivalence theory,trying to make this tentative study have the theoretical and practical meaning in business English translation.
文摘The idiomatic phrase is equal to the phrase that people use frequently language in the world that had long and splendid history all contains large quantities of idiom. They form regular phrases and short sentences through long use and refinement in the development of language. The idiomatic phrases contain varied cultural information, embody a lot of cultural feature, and cultural background. The idiomatic phrases display distinct image and figure of speech, and they also have bright national characteristic and regional (local) color. The paper includes four parts. The first chapter is to introduce the generalization of idioms and translation, and the second part is to list four different definitions of idiom according to some translational experts, next step leads in classification and sources of idiom. The third chapter introduces some common strategies of idiomatic translation such as literal translation, literal translation plus notes, free translation, and the combination of literal and free translation. At last sum up the paper.
文摘Nida＇ s Functional Equivalence Theory has made a great contribution to the translation industry, which means the translation should reach the functional equivalence between two languages rather than the rigid correspondence of the texts. Functional Equivalence Theory includes stylistic equivalence, glossary equivalence and passage equivalence. The literary work selected in this paper is a famous classic novel, Camel Xiangzi, in which the features of the language employed by author are fizll of＂Chinese characteristics.＂ Just because of the characteristics, the task is more difficult in the process of the wanslating. In this paper, it makes a contrastive analysis of the translations to the fourth chapter of Camel Xiangzi by using Nida＇s Functional Equivalence Theory. There are three kinds of English versions, which were selected from a Chinese-American translator Shi Xiaojing＇s translation Camel Xiangzi, American translator Evan King＇ s translation Rickshaw Boy and American translator Jean M.James＇ s translation Richshaw： the Novel Lo-t＇o Hsinang Tz~ Due to limited words, this paper mainly analyzes the novel from the glossary, the stylistic and the passage equivalence. The result is that Jean M.James＇ s translation maximizes to achieve Functional Equivalence Theory, it also tries to reach formal equivalence, and her Wanslafion compensates for lack of the theory. What＇ s more, it verifies the feasibility and directive significance in translation of functional equivalence.
文摘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.
文摘Many translators always get into troubles in Mining English translation practice under the guidance of traditional translation principles.A suitable theory is necessary to serve as a guiding principle of translation practice.This paper tries to study the application of functional translation theories in Mining English translation,especially the application of text topology and skopos theory.This paper has carried on the preliminary research and exploration for Mining English translation techniques,in combination with specific examples in translation practices,and finally summed up the proper translation techniques for Mining English translation.
文摘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.
文摘With China's all-round social development,especially entering the 21century,the social economy,science and technology and also the language changes are in a fast speed.Particularly,the growth of the Chinese-specific new words is much faster than any other periods.Along with the intercultural communication,the English translation of Chinese-specific new words has become a new research focus.Firstly,the paper is to introduce the growth background of the new lexical words,and then gives a definition and classifies them into the specific fields,after that the paper will discuss the two translation strategies-domestication and foreignization in translating the Chinese-specific new words to English.Comparing the strengthens and shortcomings of the two strategies,the paper draws a conclusion—regard the two translation strategies in a dialectical way.
文摘On the basis of Halliday’s theory, this paper makes it clear that clause as the translation unit is operational in Chinese to English translation and expounds the application of clause as the translation unit with some examples.
文摘Translating is a cross-cultural activity,and value is an important element of it.Therefore,it is undoubtedly that value will play an important role in English-Chinese translation,which is a learned organization of rules for making choices and resolving conflicts.These rules may serve to teach us to distinguish right and wrong,good and evil,what can be done and what cannot be.Accordingly,in this thesis,the notable differences in values in English-Chinese translation will be firstly dealt with,and then the main presentations of the value differences in English-Chinese translation will be analyzed.Furthermore,some effective methods to solve value-bound problems in English-Chinese translation will be discussed.
文摘This paper describes the design of CEMT-Ⅱ, an interactive Chinese-English machine translation system. Based on the CEMT-Ⅰsystem, CEMT-Ⅱwill be developed to have the ability to translate Chinese scientific documents into English. Now an user-friendly interface has been worked out to solve various complex ambiguities. The Chinese user need not know English well since all the questions and choices are expressed in Chinese.
