《罗德里克·赫德森》(第十章)翻译报告英语笔译专业论文.docxVIP

I I II II Abstract The translation assignment of Roderick Hudson is a part of the Bilingual Project, launched by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and cooperated by Henan University. The task has been completed by our group which consists of six members. Chapter Ten and Chapter Eleven are in the charge of me. This paper is based on the translation of Chapter Ten for the limitation of the length. Roderick Hudson is a novel by HYPERLINK /wiki/Henry_James Henry James. It was first published in 1875 as a serial in HYPERLINK /wiki/The_Atlantic_Monthly The Atlantic Monthly. As a HYPERLINK /wiki/Bildungsroman bildungsroman it traces the development of the title character, a sculptor. This novel is a description of a young man who is full of artistic temperament and similar to Icarus, who flies too close to the sun. Roderick cannot be saved from the path to self-destruction he seems set on. At last he died in a storm. Chapter Ten just describes the gloomy period of Roderick Hudson, who looses his inspiration and shakes off the control of Rowland at that time while he falls in love with a lady he cannot ever have. This task is of great meaningfulness, for there is no Chinese vision in China. The translation of this novel offers the possibility to ordinary Chinese reader to get much knowledge about Henry James and the European and American culture. This paper consists of five parts. The first part simply introduces the source and requirements about the assignment, and the general information about the writer and his masterpieces. The second part records the process of the whole task, which covers the preparation, the drill and the amendment of the translation. The third part summarizes the main difficulties during the translation, and also puts forward some adopted strategies to solve them under the instruction of functional equivalence, which are explained with the analysis of typical cases. The last two parts emphasize the great benefit and the enlightment f