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第一章 翻译概论课件 English – Chinese Translation Ms. Mei Tower of Babel[be?b(?)l]】 The whole earth had one language and was of one speech. As they migrated from the east, it happened that they found a plain in the land of Shinar【[?ainɑ:] 希纳尔（基督教《圣经》中提到的名称，即苏美尔或巴比伦尼亚地区）, and they settled there. They said one to another, ‘Come, lets make bricks, and bake them thoroughly.’ They used bricks for stone, and asphalt【[?sf?lt] 沥青；柏油 for mortar【灰泥. They said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves, so that we are not scattered across the face of the earth. Yahweh【[ja:wei]耶和华】 came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of mankind were building. Yahweh said, Look! They are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them! Come, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that they cannot understand each others speech. From there Yahweh scattered them abroad across the face of the earth. And they stopped building the city. That is why its called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad across face of the earth. As a result, this story is sometimes used within a religious context to explain the existence of many different languages and races. Tower Of Babel 巴别塔/巴比伦塔/通天塔（Tower Of Babel），据《圣经》创世纪（ Genesis）第11章记载，是当时人类联合起来兴建，希望能通往天堂的高塔。 为了阻止人类的计划，上帝让人类说不同的语言，使人类相互之间不能沟通，计划因此失败，人类自此各散东西。此故事试图为世上出现不同语言和种族提供解释。 Babel在希伯来语中意为混乱,可在巴比伦文中却是神的门的意思。 世界上有多少种语言？ 语言是人类交际的重要工具。凡有人类的地方就会有语言。世界上到底有多少种语言呢?据东德出版的《语言学及语言交际工具问题手册》说，现在世界上查明的有5651种语言。在这些语言中，约有1400多种还没有被人们承认是独立的语言，或者是正在衰亡的语言。在4200多种已被承认的独立的语言中，能得到很好研究的仅500种，而有1500种几乎还没研究过。 第一章 翻译概论 Teaching Objectives: 对待翻译有自己的理解； 了解本课程在翻译当中的所属类别； 通过学习不同的翻译标准，使学生能够初步评价不同的译文，并提出自己的看法。 一、 翻译的定义？ 【先问学生关于翻译的理解，认为翻译什么最重要？】 1. “翻译乃是与语言行为抉择密切相关的一种语际信息传递的特殊方式。”（沃尔夫拉姆·威尔斯，1982） 2. 翻译是把一种语言的言语产物在保持内容方面，也就是意义不变