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A Collegiate Course in English-Chinese Translation 授课班级：09英语教育5﹑6﹑7班 贺一舟 The Nature of Translation Chapter One: The Nature, Criterion and Requirement of Translation What is translation? Discuss with your partners: How do you perceive translation? As a language activity? As an art? As a kind of cross-cultural communication? As a job? As a subject? A language activity: one of the five skills in learning English An art: the processes as well as the product Communication: translation or die Job: for some people, it is a job Subject: to learn translation theory and skills, it is no doubt a science. Translation is also a good way to develop your own language, both native and foreign language. the nature of translation “transfer of a text from a source language into a text in target language, the objective being a perfect equivalence of meaning between the two texts.”(Tanke ,1976) Translation is an intentional, interpersonal, partly verbal intercultural interaction based on a source text. （Nord：2001 Translation is a science/ an art/ a craft/ a skill/ an operation/ a cross-linguistic communication/ a cross-cultural communication/ Translation means translating meanings(Nida). the rules of translation Alexander Fraser Tytler’s 3 principles(1797) : The translation should give a complete transcript of the idea of the original work. The style and manner of writing should be of the same character with that of the original. The translation should have all the ease of the original composition Yanfu (1898): faithfulness, fluency and elegance Eugene A. Nida: “Theory of Equivalent Effect” Hans Vermeer：the theory of “skopos 钱钟书：化境 Sublimed adaptation 傅雷： “神似”论spiritual conformity Polysystem translation theory Deconstruction theory Culture turn in translation Process of Translation：comprehending, expressing and checking 1.1. 翻译是跨语言（cross-linguistic）,跨文化（cross-cultural）,跨社会（cross-social）的交际活动。 1.2. 翻译是一种语言文化承载的意义转换到另一种语言文化中的跨语言﹑跨文化的交际活动。 1.3. 翻译是将一种语言文化承载的意义转换转换到另一种语言文化中的跨语言、跨文化的