2015-7英语双学位翻译实践材料（学生） .docVIP

Chinese-English English-Chinese Translation Practice 英语二学位翻译实践课简单说明： 1.翻译实践课为针对二学位第学期所开设的一门课程，该课程计划个学时，需在两周内完成教学任务，课程共计2个学分； 2.。 odule 1 Means of Translation I.Brief introduction: 1. Literal translation The so –called literal translation , superficially speaking, means, “not to alter the original words and sentences”; strictly speaking, it strives “to keep the sentiments and style of the original”. It takes sentences as its basic units and takes the whole text (discourse) into consideration at the same time in the course of translation. Furthermore, it strives to reproduce both the ideological content and the style of he original works and retains as much as possible the figures of speech.. Successful literal translation gentlemen’s agreement 君子协定 Chain reaction 连锁反映 2. Free translation an alternative approach which is used mainly to convey the meaning and spirit of the original without trying to reproduce its sentence patterns or figures of speeches. Adam’s apple 喉结 at sixes and sevens 乱七八糟 Literal translation and free translation, however, are relative concepts. In other words, there is no absolute “literal”, nor entirely “free” version in the practice of translation, and overemphasizing either of them would result in ridiculous consequences. 3. TransliterationThe transference of sounds from one phonological system to another, but because the phonological systems are different from one another and because any one phonological system may not be completely phonemic, problems inevitably arise. II. Translation Practice: put the following passage into Chinese. It has become an axiom of modern politics that there is a causal relationship between economic activity and government popularity: to be precise, that the performance of the economy has a direct bearing on the electoral success of an incumbent government. A good illustration of this new economic determinism was the widespread explanation of the failure