英汉新闻翻译.ppt

News Translation 英汉新闻翻译(一) Contents 1) Structure of News Report 2) Characteristics of News Report 3) Classification of News Report 4) Structure of News Report 5) Translation Practice What is news? 1. News is a fresh report of events, facts, or opinions that people did not know before they read your story. 新闻就是针对人们读你的报道以前还不知道的事件、事实或观点的一种全新报道。 2. 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。 3. News is any event, idea or opinion that is timely, that interests or affects a large number of people in a community and that is capable of being understood by them. 新闻是指人们能及时获悉的事件、观点或见解，它能吸引或影响社会上的许多人，并能为他们所理解。 4. 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。 5. If a dog bites a man, it is not news; if a man bites a dog, its (big) news. 狗咬人并非新闻，人咬狗才是（大）新闻。 …… 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. A. Identify news categories the nature of the reported events 1. hard news 2. soft news Hard news is how journalists refer to news of the day. It is a chronicle of current events / incidents and is the most common type of news printed on the front page of a typical newspaper. 硬新闻关系到国计民生以及人们切身利益的新闻。包括党和国家的重大方针、政策的制定和改变，时局变化，市场行情，股市涨落，银根松紧，疾病流行，天气变化，重大 灾难事故等等。这类新闻为人们的政治、经济、工作、日常生活的决策提供依据。 Soft news is a term for all the news that isn’t time-sensitive（时效性）, including profiles of people, programs or organizations, etc. 软新闻：人情味较浓的社会新闻（社会花边新闻、娱乐新闻、体育新闻、服务性新闻等），形式上通俗，注重趣味性。它没有明确的时间界定，多属于延缓