《罗德里克·赫德森》翻译报告英语笔译专业论文.docxVIP

I I II II Abstract The translation task is Roderick Hudson, the first full-length novel of famous American writer Henry James. It tells a talent American artist Roderick Hudson, came to Italy learning sculpture under the guidance of an art appreciator Rowland Mallet, but Hudson lost himself there and his inspiration shrunk off, at last, he died in the storm at Alps. It hasn’t been translated in China. This translation task is part of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Bilingual Project. The novel is translated by six students, and chapter twelve to thirteen is by me. The full text includes the source text, target text and translation report which is composed of four parts. The first part tells the source and requirements of the task and introduces the works of the writer and the content of this novel. As one of the tasks of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Bilingual Project, the sentence-to-sentence pattern on the network platform is needed, therefore it is different from the traditional literary translation. Although Henry James plays an important role in American literary history, few of his works has been translated to Chinese readers, as his first long novel, Roderick Hudson has never been published in Chinese and seldom been mentioned. Reference material shortage increases the difficulties in translation. The second part describes the process of the whole translation. In the preparation, after reading on the fiction and studying translation theory, I choose functional equivalence theory put forward by Eugene A. Nida to guide this task. I translated the fiction twice and list some impressive examples during the process. At last, the Chinese version was reviewed for several times to ensure its fluency. The third part analyzes some translation methods applied in the task. Guided by functional equivalence theory and based on the contrast of Chinese-English, the analysis of the examples is given in terms of words and sentences. As to the words