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1. What is the process of doing translation? (1)理解和表达是翻译的两个主要步骤。译者对原文的正确理解在翻译过程中至关重要；译者的表达须具有准确力和表现力，语言须具有生动性和形式美。(2)分析原文就是细致处理词位的所指意义和联想意义、研究句法和语篇结构。理解和领会原文是从事无论何种翻译的基本功力。如果译者确实理解了原文的涵义，又能得心应手地驾驭译语，那么翻译就是一个很自然的驾轻就熟的过程。(3)翻译的过程可以简单分为：理解—表达—校核三个阶段，或理解—表达两个阶段。 (1)Understanding and expression serve as the two main steps when we do translation. The correct understanding to the source language by a translator is very crucial in the process of translation. The translators expression must be accurate and expressive. And the language must be vivid and beautiful in form. (2)To analyze the source language means carefully handling its meaning, including associative meaning of word units and studying the syntax and passage structure. Understand and grasp the original is engaged in any translation of the basic capability. Understanding and comprehending the meaning of the text is fundamental to a translator. If a translator truly understands the meaning of the source language and is apt to take advantages of the translation theories, then the translation would be pretty easy.(3) The process of translation can be simply divided into three or two steps: understanding, expressing, checking, or just understanding, expressing. 2. What are the qualifications of being a translator? 1) A translator must be well acquainted with the source language. We are inclined to feel too confident of our comprehension when we are reading foreign literary works. We think we know it from A to Z, yet, when we start translating it we find it difficult and there are many points misunderstood. 一个译者必须很精通源语言。当我们阅读国外文学作品时，我们通常很自信于自己的理解能力。我们自以为完全读懂了文意，可是一旦开始翻译就会遇到障碍，才发现很多地方都理解错了。 2) A translator must be well acquainted with the target language. Lets take Yan Fu for instance: When Yan Fu, a famous translator in the?Qing?Dynasty, was translating Evolution and Ethics , the title turned out to be the crux that caused him to cudgel his brains day and night and look pale for it, eventually had it trans