A Preliminary Study of English-Chinese Translation’s Principles and the Problems 英语毕业论文.docVIP

A Preliminary Study of English-Chinese Translation’s Principles and the Problems Chapter One Introduction of Translation 1.1 Definitions of Translation What is translation? The Oxford English Dictionary (牛津英语词典) gives translate this definition: to turn from one language into another (从一种语言换成另一种语言)；The Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of English Language（韦氏新编国际英语词典）gives translate this definition: to turn into one’s own or another language (转换成本族语或另一种语言)。Although there is a little difference between the two, they express the same meaning that translation is a activity about “language exchange”. Translation is an art, a bilingual art. Translation enables us to reproduce the fine thought of someone, not in colors, but in words, in words of a different language. Translation is not a easy job, its difficulty is greatly multiplied by the wide difference in vocabulary and sentence construction between the Oriental and Occidental languages. Translation is difficult to be mastered. Many experienced translators complain that they have had insurmountable difficulties in their work. Indeed, few people can translate a book without more or less making mistakes. As we know, translation is a representation or recreation in one language of what is written or said in another language. Strictly speaking, translation is a kind of science because It has a whole set of rules governing it and certain objective laws to go by in the process of translating just as other science do, for in translation, certain skills and technique are needed in order to attain clearness of style, and fluency in language. English and Chinese are two entirely different languages. Each has an individual and distinct system. On the one hand, there are some similarities between the two languages, as in the word order of subject and predicate and that of transitive verb and object. On the other hand, there are lots of dissimilarities between them both in morphology and in syntax. Because of this, we ha