《可能的未来》翻译报告英语笔译专业论文.docxVIP

I I PAGE PAGE VI Abstract The material the author translated is published by Random House Publishing Group in 2003, named The Probable Future, which was provided by author’s friend. The novel has not been translated. Author is in charge of Chapter One. The author of this novel is Alice Hoffman, a popular novelist. She began this book soon after her mother died, and then she was thinking the complicated and amazing relationship between mother and daughter. And she was close to her grandmother. Besides, she had a breast cancer at that time. So all her experiences and emotion were added into this novel, thus an amazing novel was completed. This novel tells us a story of Sparrow family. Only girls were born in this family and on the birthday of thirteen of each girl, they will be gifted. And this novel focus on mother-daughter relationship and the growth of a girl named Stella. This thesis consists of four parts. The first part describes the task and introduces the author and her works. The second part gives the processes of writing this thesis. The third part introduces the functional equivalence of Nida, and gives convincing proofs of the applicability of the functional equivalence in the translation of literary novel. The last part is translation summary. There are two crucial factors for the translation of novel, namely, the transfer of the meaning and that of the style, which have been studied in details. With reference to many translation principles and criterion, it comes out that Nida’s functional equivalence is the very theory to guide the translation of novel for its emphasis on the transfer of the meaning and the response of the reader. So the author adapted the functional equivalence as guidance. However, English and Chinese languages have different cultural background, and there are distinctive gaps between their expression and thinking. It is impossible to represent all the stylistic features of the original. So this thesis focuses on the meaning, style