On Translation of Tourist Material 浅谈旅游资料的翻译.docxVIP

浅谈旅游资料的翻译??摘要：随着改革开放的深入，越来越多的外国游客来到中国，所以旅游资料的翻译显得极其重要。本文根据奈达的功能对等原则及其它一些翻译学家的理论，从语言和文化两个角度对旅游资料的翻译进行了粗浅的探讨。关键词：旅游资料；语言；文化；翻译On Translation of Tourist Material?Abstract: Since the economic reform and opening to the outside world, more and more foreign visitors are coming to China. Therefore, it becomes all the more important to render the tourist materials well. Basing on Nidas functional equivalence principle and some other translation theories , this paper treats the problem from two aspects: language and culture, and tries to give some rough suggestions.Key words: tourist materials; language; culture; translation?1. IntroductionWith the rapid development of tourism, tourist materials are playing a more and more important role in tourism industry. There are many successful examples of English versions of tourist materials, however, some are not so satisfying and are in great need of being polished. This paper will make a brief analysis of the current problems in translating tourist materials and tries to give some rough suggestions. It also examines the issues from the following three perspectives: (1) tourism language and translation; (2) tourism culture and translation; (3) suggested methods for the translation of tourist materials.2. Brief Introduction of the Translation of Tourist Material2.1 Definition of Tourist MaterialTourist materials, as referred here, are the various materials that introduce Chinese tourism industry and tourism resources to average tourists all around the world. They mainly include: books, pictures, albums, tour maps, postcards, slides, video TV shows, documentary films, videodisks, etc. The majority of readers of translated tourist materials are ordinary foreign tourists who may not know much about China.2.2?? ?Function of Tourist MaterialTourist material is one of the categories of the texts. According to Newmark, texts have the function of expressive, informative and vocative and no text and few sentences are undiluted among them. A t