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PAGE  PAGE 27 AN OUTLINE OF TRANSLATION PRACTICE BASIC ENGLISH-CHINESE TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES Compiled by Huang Li-jin August 2009 Lecturer’s Note This material is designed for the students as an outline of lectures; notes to be detailed in class; Students are requested to do the drills before each class (i.e. preview)so that better results can be obtained Part I General Introduction What translation is * Translation is an art, a bilingual art. * Translation is also a science. * Translation as an art is the work of only a few. * Translation as a science will be within easy reach of many. * Translation, essentially, is the faithful representation, in one language, of what is written or said in another language. Please study the following examples: 有些知识分子现在是十五个吊桶打水，七上八下。他在空中飞，上不着天，下不着地。我说，这些人叫“梁上君子”，他在那个梁上飞，他要回去，那边空了，那几张皮没有了，老家回不去了。老家没有了，他又不甘心情愿附在无产阶级身上。（《毛泽东选集》，第五卷，第453页） Some intellectuals are now unsettled. Suspended as they are in mid-air, they have nothing to hang on to above and no solid ground to rest their feet on below. I say, these people may be called“gentlemen in mid-air”. Flying in mid-air, they want to go back but are unable to because they find their old home, those skins, gone. Though now homeless, they are still unwilling to attach themselves to the proletariat. 2. 再试纺，顶多忙一阵子，过了几天，还不是外甥打灯笼 – 找舅 （照旧）。（周而复：《上海的早晨》，第一部，第50章） And if we’re now going to have a check spinning it’ll only mean that we’ll be busier than ever for a spell and then after a few days things will be back to what they were before. II．Prerequisites of a translator the English language the Chinese language the subject matter covered in the book or article knowledge in all fields, social, cultural, scientific, technological, etc. principles and techniques of translation fine working style Some examples showing the importance of the necessary knowledge in translation: To sit above or below the salt Chin