英语专业笔译课件Chapter I.ppt

About the Course – Translation Theory and Practice 1 Its importance 2 What to learn and how to learn? A. Basic knowledge, useful techniques - form correct ideas about translation B. Practice, discussion - practice and theory 3 How to translate well? Chapter I Introduction I. History of Translation in China II. What is Translation? III. The Process of Translation IV. Criteria for Translation V. Literal Translation and Free Translation I. History of Translation In China 1. The Eastern Han – The Northern and Southern Dynasties (25-581) Foreigners came to China to translate Buddhist Scripture 2. The Sui Dynasty – The Tang Dynasty (581-907) ~ golden age of translation in ancient China 3 giants in translating Buddhist Scripture: Xuan Zang, Kumarajiva, Paramartha 玄藏, 鸠摩罗什, 真谛 3. The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) Xu Guangqi M. Ricci -- co-translators of Euclid’s Elements 徐光启, 利玛窦 - 欧几里得几何原本 4. The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Lin Shu, Yan Fu Ma Jianzhong 5. From 1911 to 1949 writer-and-translator – Lu Xun, Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Bin Xin, Zhou Zuoren, Lin Yutang, etc. Zhu Shenghao 6. Since 1949 1) literary - Fu Lei, Yang Bi, Zhang Guruo, Lu Shuxiang, Xu Yuan-chong, Xiao Qian, Yang xianyi, etc. 2) scientific, 3) political, 4) economic, 5) legal, etc II. What is Translation? 翻译是运用一种语言把另一种语言所表达的思维内容准确而完整地重新表达出来的语言活动. a. Translation is a bilingual activity, i.e., it involves two different languages (source and target languages) b. The original ideas should be correctly and fully reproduced Other Statements Examples Other Statements: a.??Translation is an operation performed on languages: a process of substituting a text in one language for a text in another. J. C. Catford b.? Translation is communication. c.?Translators are traitors. Italian proverb d. What is translation? Often, though not by any means always, it is rendering the meaning of a text into an