王晓农翻译理论与实践2 Lecture Two.pptVIP

to adhere to this approach means you are not to break up an original sentence, how long it may be ,into shorter ones for convenience of translation, unless there is division necessity. In the case of division, the approach should be applied to each of the smaller sentences. Yantai, a beautiful seaside city renowned as an international vine-wine capital, is one of China’s first 14 coastal metropolises open to the outside world. Chinese sentences: Typically a bamboo shoot (Topic + Comment construction) English sentences : a tree with its trunk ,branches and twigs(S+P Frame-work) * * Translation Theory Practice(2) Course No. 1400142 Lecturer: Lecture Two A Syntactic Approach to C-E Translation (1): Clarification Illustration A Syntactic Approach to C-E Translation (1): Clarification Illustration You are expected to make conscientious efforts to learn to produce syntactically sound English sentences in C-E T. Syntactic Approach to C-E Translation:highlights the structural treatment of the original Chinese sentences for inter-sentences as the basic translation unit, without neglecting the question of translating words and phrases and of style of the English version Significance: Effective for both practical and pedagogic purposes. Practically it can offer a possible version (or a preliminary version for further improvement) and pedagogically, it can provide a common ground for a translation workshop. Tip:In our discussion today, pay close attention to the procedure of translating rather than the finished versions. Preliminary illustration:(1) 烟台是一座美丽的海滨城市, 是中国首批对外开放的十四个沿海城市之一和著名的国际葡萄?葡萄酒城。Analysis: Semantic; pragmatic; syntactic; rhetorical; functional As for Chinese sentences unnecessary to be broken up, in order to set up a trunk sentence structure for the English version, it is important to achieve the proper decision on a form of the trunk structure for the main part that is to carry the central idea of a sentence, to which branching str