新闻英语翻译.ppt

Translation of English News 新闻英语翻译 Famous sayings Translation are like women – when they are faithful they are not beautiful, when they are beautiful they are not faithful. Torture and translation are, in fact, among the few facts that can be worse than death. Strictly speaking, translation is a subtle form of torture. Famous sayings Literal translation is the first step in translation, and a good translator abandons a literal version only when it is plainly inexact or, in the case of a vocative or informative text, badly written. Since language do not differ essentially in what they can say, but in how they can say it, paraphrase is inevitable. What is important is the semantic legitimacy of the paraphrase. Definition of News News is a fresh report of events, facts, or opinions that people did not know before they read your story. 新闻就是对人们阅读之前还不知道的事件、事实或观点的一种全新报道。 Definition of News News is anything timely that interests a number of persons, and the best news is that which has the greatest interest of the greatest number． 凡是及时的、能引起一部分人兴趣的东西，便是新闻。而最好的新闻则是那种能够激起最大多数人最大兴趣的东西。 Definition of News News is the reporting of anything timely which has importance, use, or interest to a considerable number of persons in a publication audience. 新闻是对任何事物的及时报道，对于读者群体中的许多人来说，这类报道具有重要性、实用性或趣味性。 Definition of News If a dog bites a man, it is not news; if a man bites a dog, it’s (big) news. 狗咬人并非新闻, 人咬狗才是(大)新闻。 Definition of News News is an account of what is happening around us. It may involve current events, new initiative or ongoing projects or issues. But news is not only about what’s taking place of the day, it also concerns background analysis, opinions, human interest stories, etc. Nature of the reported events hard news soft news Hard News Hard news is how journalists refer to news of the day. It is a chronicle of current events or incidents and is the most common type of news printed on the front page of a typical newspaper. Hard News 硬新闻:关系到国计民生以及人们