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English-Chinese Translation for International Business Foreign Language Teaching and Research Department Heilongjiang University Chapter One Teaching Objectives On completion of this chapter, students should be able to: 1. get to know the objectives and features of this course. 2. get to know translation theory: the principles of translation; the process of translation; the approaches and techniques of translation The Points to Be Highlighted the criteria of translation the approaches of translation Teaching Procedures and Contents Greetings Introduction to the structure and the course Review the brief history of translation in China Warm-up answer some questions and try to translate some sentences on the blackboard Body 1.翻译的界定definition of translation 翻译的历史可以说几乎同语的历史一样古老。我们可以肯定地说，什么时候有(interlingua translation)。我们在这里所谈论什么是翻译?有人认为，翻译是源语(source language)与目标(译语)(target language)两种语言之间的转换(interlinguansfer)。source language target language interlingua transfer 这种提法是不确切的，因为两种语言之间直接的转换(文化)的意(reproduce)原文的思想，而不是原文的 翻译的历史可以说几乎同语的历史一样古老。我们可以肯定地说，什么时候有(interlingua translation)。我们在这里所谈论 什么是翻译?《大英百科全书》将翻译定义为“将用一种语言或者一套语言符号 Translation: to turn into one’s own language or another language. 牛津高阶英汉词典 Translation: to give the meaning of (sth. said or written) in another language. 翻译是运用一种语言把另一种语言所表达的思想、内容，准确而完整地重新表达出来的语言活动。 Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—the target text, also called the translation. 因此，对于什么是翻译，我们认为有必要从更宏观的角度去进行界定。这里我们根据范仲英(1994：13)对翻译的界定提出以下定义： 翻译是一种跨语言、跨文化的信息与情感交流过程(translation is an intercommunicative process of cross-linguistic, cross-cultural information and sentiments )。它通过把一种语言(即原语)表达的信息用另一种语言(即 译语)再现出来的方式帮助译语使用者了解原作者意欲传达的信息内容并获得与原语使用者大致相同的感受，以达到帮助操不同语言的交际者进行信息与情感交流的目的。 翻译的标准 The Criteria of Translation 对于翻译的标准，自1898年严复(严又陵)提出“信达雅”的翻译主张以来，人们一直讨论不断，争论不休，呈现出仁者见仁，智者见智的现象。