补充材料之减译法（31页）.pptxVIP

Proper omission （省译）;I. Definition ? By omission we mean properly omitting some words or expressions in order to make the translated version brief, concise, clear， instead of verbose or clumsy. Proper omission in English-Chinese translation often involves the omitting of some words (such as prepositions, articles, certain pronouns, conjunctions，etc.) that are indispensable in the SL text but not in the TL text in the process of translation.;II. Motivation ? Omission is based on the differences between English and Chinese. Only by omitting or aciding some words or expressions can we make the translated version more idiomatic and thus more expressive. For example, Chinese has no articles or infinitive markers, and pronouns, conjunctions, and prepositions are not as frequently used as those of English. So when we translate English sentences with articles and infinitive markers into Chinese, we often omit these articles or infinitive markers. E.g.:;Motivation 1) You cannot build a ship, a bridge or a house if you don’t know how to make a design or how to read it. 2) It took him a long time to reach the bottom and to crouch behind a little dwarf palm. r 不会制图或看不懂图纸，就不可能造船，架桥或盖 房子。;III. Principles 1. Omission should be aimed at smoothness and conciseness or succinctness, 2. Omission does not go against faithfulness’. Omission only involves omitting words that are superfluous in the TL text but are indispensable in the SL text Omission does not mean subtracting meanings from the original work. 3. What is omitted may not be necessarily confined to certain parts of speech, as the traditionalists often say. Any parts of speech may be “able to be omitted depending upon the context and the translator s translation techniques.;Omission of parts of speech due to syntactic consideration ? Omission of articles (articles are generally not translated unless it is necessary) ? Omission of prepositions ? Omission of personal and possessive pronouns ? Omission of‘it’ ? Omission