English News Translation Ⅲ.ppt

English News Translation Ⅲ Requirements of News Translation 1. Fully understand the source text and translate it accurately e.g. 中国政府决定于1997年7月1日对香港恢复行使主权。 The Government of the People’s Republic of China has decided to resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong with effect from 1 July 1997. We two countries have common interests over and above our differences. 我们两国除了有分歧，也有共同利益。 2. Add extra interpretation to special terms in the translated text. 新中国的成立，标志着中华民族实现了空前的大团结。 The founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 marked an unprecedented great unity of the Chinese nation. 我国先秦思想家早就提出了“亲仁善邻，国之宝也”的思想，反映了自古以来中国人民就希望天下太平，同各国人民友好相处。 Chinese thinkers of the pre-Qin days (over 2,000years ago) advanced the doctrine “loving people and treating neighbors kindly are most valuable to a country.” This is a reflection of the aspiration of the Chinese people for a peaceful world where people of all countries live in harmony. 发展两岸关系，推进祖国和平统一进程。 Develop relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits and promote the peaceful reunification of the motherland. Some terms which are commonplaces to the source language readers are new to the target language readers. Thus, it is necessary to give some extra interpretation to them when translated into the target language. 3. Make the renderings idiomatic 为了推动中美关系的发展，中国需要进一步了解美国，美国也需要进一步了解中国。 To promote the development of China-US relationship, China needs to know the United States better and vice versa. 4. Be careful with cultural disparities What’s the relationship between language and culture? Language is the carrier of culture. The former is in the foreground position and the latter in the background position. They are interdependent. Cultural disparities reflected in English and Chinese Different living environments Britain is an island country while China is on the Eurasian Continent. Thus, English idioms have many words concerned with water. (2) Different concepts In recent years burning the calor