Unit One Lead-in for__ Translation课件.ppt

Unit One A Lead-in for Translation（翻译导读）; Ⅰ.Warm-up Exercise;Translation for Your Reference;Unit OneA General Knowledge of Translation;1.2  According to Peter Newmark(彼特·纽马克), a noted British translator and translation theorist, translation, often, though not by any means always, is rendering the meaning of a text into another language in the way the author intended the text.;1.3 As for the renowned American translation theorist Eugene A. Nida (尤金·奈达), translation is not accomplished by merely substituting words in a word-for-word equivalence. More often than not, this will not produce the force (or dynamic) of meaning. The translator will therefore modify the form of words so as to achieve the same force of meaning. The jargon for the same force of meaning is dynamic equivalence. ;And in late 1960s, Eugene A. Nida defined translation as :Translation?consists?in?reproducing?in?the?receptor?language?the?closest?natural quivalence?of?the?source?language,?first?in?terms?of?meaning?and?secondly?in? terms? of?style.(翻译,?是在译语中用切近而又最自然的对等语再现原语的信息。首先是意义, 其次是文体。);1.4 By Oxford English Dictionary: “to turn from one language into another.”1.5 By Webster’s Third New International Dictionary: “to turn into one’s own or another language.”1.6 By Chinese dictionary《辞海》and《汉语大词典》：“把一种语言文字的意义用另一种语言文字表达出来。”;Shortcomings of the above definitions:  A— The social, cultural contexts are neglected. B— The communicative nature of translation is not revealed.C — That translation is a creative practice is not mentioned. Just as Lu Xun once pointed out“真正精妙的翻译，其可宝贵，实不在创作之下；而真正精妙的翻译，其艰难实倍于创作”。;As a matter of fact,A- translation means both the process and product of the language transferring activity.B- translation means more than just the transferring of the meaning; it is also a communication of the two thoughts, cultures, and societies. C- translation is a creative practice which largely involves the hard work and genius of the translator.;D-Translatio