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Correct comprehension is always the first and foremost step; and the dialectical unity of faithfulness and smoothness is always what we should strive to achieve. understand clearly：(a) what the author is driving at; (b) what his argument or views are, and what “logic sequence” there is in the original; (c) what grammatical relations there are among the three, four, five, or even more “modifiers” in the long sentence to be translated. 1. Two Stages and Seven Steps in Translating a Long Sentence Stage I Comprehension Step 1: present the long sentence in a skeleton form Step 2: i