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翻译理论与技巧[上] Translation Studies For Undergraduate Students Chapter One Definition, Criteria Requirement of Translation Translation is of great importance in learning a foreign language. Many of those who learn English will be English-Chinese translators in the future. There are many translation theories and techniques for them to learn. Without knowing the theories and techniques, one will most likely take a roundabout course in the translation work. That’s why it is necessary for them to have a good command of the theories and the techniques in translation. Unit One Definition of Translation Topics for discussion: 1. Why do we say different people have different ways of circumscribing translation? [Answer: Their Difference lies on the fact that what they respectively emphasize.] 2. “To translation is to change into another language, retaining the sense.” What Dr Samual Johnson means by the sense? [Answer: the content or meaning, style, the attitude of the author…] 3. What kind of equivalent it should be according to Nida? [The answer is that closest natural equivalent is required.] 4. What kind of equivalence is in Nida’s definition of translation? [Answer: His equivalence is dynamic equivalence.] 5. Which is the task of translation according to Nida, to reproduce the formal structure of the source language text or to reproduce the message? [Answer: to reproduce the message rather than the formal structure of the source language text.] 6. Which takes the first place in translation according to Nida, the meaning or the style? 7. What are two lexical items in his definition of translation, which call for comment? [Answer: They are textual material and equivalent.] 8. What does Huang Long means by the term textual material? [Answer: In normal condition it is not the entirety of a source language text that is reproduced by a target language equivalent.] 9. What is the central problem of translation practice according to Huang Long? [Answer: finding TL (target langua