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Lesson 6 Translating the following sentences into Chinese 1. His very appearance at any affair proclaims it a triumph. 2. After an impatient oath or two, she got her hair away from her eyes, sufficiently to obtain a sight of him. 3. He is no smoker, but his father is a chain-smoker. 4. He showed with his eyes that he heard, but made no sign of assent or dissent. 5. The judge sat in the dinning-room amid his morning mail. Translating the following sentences into Chinese 6. We are quite sure that the socialist system will replace the capitalist system in the end. 7. The successful fishermen of that day were already in. 8. On that day they were escorted to the Great Wall of China. 9. He was snuffed by the top-ranking officials there. 10. All the wounded were sent to the hospital right away. Activity 2 Translation Theory Task 1 Two Systems for Translating Read the following paragraph which introduces one system for translating. Can you then explain in your own words what the letters A, X and B in Figure 1 represent? Please fill in the blanks according to what you have just read. The first system of translation consists in setting up a series of rules which are intended to be applied strictly in order and are designed to specify exactly what should be done with each item or combination of items in the source language so as to select the appropriate corresponding form in the receptor language. This automatic selection process is best accomplished by working through an intermediate, neutral, universal linguistic structure. This go-between language into which the source is translated and from which the finished translation is derived may be either another natural language or a completely artificial language. This approach is based on the application of rules to what linguistics call the “surface structure” of language, that is, the level of structure which is overtly spoken and heard, or written and read. This approach may be diagrammed as in Figure 1 (Nida and