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标题翻译(英文) Translation Of News Headlines 返回《尤妮斯特国际英语》 关闭窗口 ID: helen821010 发表于：2005-5-6 18:33:25 Abstract: A news headline is the nuclear of a piece of news, which is an essential part of everyday life. This essay discusses the techniques in translation of headlines by analyzing the theory of translation, the features of both Chinese and English news headlines and a number of extracts from newspapers. Key word: translation; headline features;techniques 1. Introduction Newspaper is a necessary part of daily life and it is the window to the outer world. It is generally true that a piece of news is composed by a headline, news leads, news body, news background and conclusion. It is said that a good beginning is half battle. A good headline does the same to a piece of news. It has the following features: importance, nearness, prominence, interest, so the proper translation of news headlines is of much importance. This essay will discuss the techniques in headline translation of by illustrating the theory of translation ,the features of both Chinese and English headlines with the translation extracts from a number of pieces of news. 2. The theory of translation What is translation? Translation is ‘the act of rendering a work of one language into another’ (Encyclopedia American,vol.27,1985:12) .According to an English professor called Fan Zhongying (1996:13),translation is a bridge connecting different languages in the process of human communication . Translation is the act of expressing the information of a source language in the target language. It will make target language readers understand the author’s idea and get similar feelings with source language readers. Professor Fan’s definition is more complete and more scientific. According to his definition, the author tries to define news translation: News translation is the is the act of expressing the news of a source language in a target language. It will make the target language read