TranslationExercises.doc

Translation Exercises One Questions for Discussion: What is the function or significance of translation? How do you define translation? Why did Professor Liu Zhongde disapprove of Yan Fu’s ‘”elegance” ? What is your translation principles? Translation Exercises Two 一、Answer the questions below. How are literal translation and liberal translation defined? How are “foreignization” and “domestication” defined? Why is the literal translation approach more commonly employed? Give examples to show the literal-plus-liberal translation approach. 二、Translate the following into Chinese by using the literal translation approach. (1) Our big bird can be fed even at night. (France Airlines) (2) Kodak is Olympic color (3) Light as a breeze, soft as a cloud. (4) Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine. (5) Flowers speak from the heart. (6) Challenge the Limits. ( SAMSUNG) (7) Walk in Britain in Style Enjoy a relaxed, escorted walking tour through idyllic village and countryside. Stay at character, country hotels. See the real Britain close-up. (8) For parrots, wild orchids and exotic fruits, come to sunny Middle-sex. Middlesex, Jamaica, is a world apart from Middlesex, England. The temperature is around 80o all year long. The birds in the trees are a shade more exotic. There are hundreds of tropical flowers that you’ll find nowhere on Earth but in Jamaica. 三、Translate the following into Chinese by using the liberal translation approach. (1) Think again. Think Canon. (2) All is well that ends well. (advert of a cigarette brand) (3) Good To The Last Drop (4) Apple Thinks Different (Apple computer) (5) Hide from risk and you hide from its rewards. ( an advert of Americans in business) (6) This is the Sheraton Bal Harbour Resort. Where the days hesitate to end, and the memories linger forever. 四、Translate the following into Chinese by using the literal-plus-liberal translation approach. (1) Where there is a will, there is a way. Where there is a