TranslationSkillsandPrinciplesofEnlishMovieTitles英文电影标题的翻译技巧和准则.doc

Translation Skills and Principles of English Movie Titles 英文电影标题的翻译技巧和准则 中文摘要 电影是一门艺术，同时也是一种商品。随着中国市场的开放，越来越多的英 语电影走进中国的电影院。在欣赏这些英语电影之前，中国观众首先需要理解电 影片名，电影片名将把电影情节传递给观众，从而吸引观众，这要求英语电影名 称的翻译既要做到翻译上的准确，也要突出电影作为商品的商业价值。在分析了 电影名称的特征、功能后，笔者探讨了翻译英文电影片名的技巧，并通过对误译 的剖析总结出电影片名翻译的原则。 关键词　英语电影片名，翻译，原则，方法 外文摘要 Abstract Movie is an art and a commodity as well. With the opening of the Chinese market, we have more and more English movies. The Chinese audiences need to understand the movie titles before they enjoy the movies. Movie titles convey the story to the audience to attract them. This requires the translation of movie titles to be accurate and embody the commercial values. After the analysis of the characteristics and functions of movie titles, the author of the present study discussed the skills of the English movie title translation and summarized the translation principles. Keywords English movie titles, translation, principles, skills Contents 1 Introduction………………………………………………………………………. 1 2 Characteristics of English movie titles…………………………………………… 2 2.1 Brief and concentrated…………………………………………………………. 2 2.2 Heroes’or heroines’names as titles…………………………………………… 2 2.3 Settings as titles…………………………………………………………………. 3 2.4 Attractive………………………………………………………………………… 3 3 Functions of English movie titles…………………………….................................. 3 3.1 Informative function…………………………………………………………....... 4 3.2 Vocative function………………………………………………………………….4 3.3 Aesthetic function……………………………………………………………….. 4 4 Skills of English movie title translation……………………………………………..5 4.1 Transliteration……………………………………………………………………..5 4.2 Literal translation………………………………………………………………….5 4.3 Free translation…………………………………………………………………….6 5 Mistranslation………………………………………………………………………..9 5.2 Misunderstanding of cultural information………………………………………..10 5.3 Infuence of commercial profits…………………………………………………..11 6 Principles of English movie title translation……………………………………….12 6.1 Faithfulness………………………………