About the Course
• Evaluation 30% ：presence+ in-class performance +presentation 70%: Final Test: sentence translation: E-C, C-E (50%from in/after class materials) passage translation :E-C , C-E
信达雅的典范
• Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business. – Bacon , On Studies • 读书足以怡情，足以博彩，足以长才。其怡情也， 最见于独处幽居之时；其博彩也，最见于高谈阔 论之中；其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。-王佐 良译
Definition of Translation
• In China: 许渊冲：translation is an art only 刘重德: translation is both an art and a science
Principles for Translation
• What is a good translation ?
Principles for Translation
• Limitations of Yan Fu’s principle: Different texts have different styles, “elegance” cannot be the only criterion.
Principles for Translation
Session 1 :An Introduction to the Course and a Brief Discussion about Translation
About the Course
• Expectations • Book:《新编英汉互译教程 》谭卫国 华东理工大学出版社 • Syllabus
Principles for Translation
• E. A. Nida’s Functional Equivalence Translation consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalence of the source language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style. 翻译是用最恰当、自然和对等的语言从语 义到文体再现源语的信息 .
a Brief Discussion about Translation
a Brief Discussion about Translation
• What is Translation ?
Definition of Translation
• Roman Jacobson: Translation includes : intra-lingual rewording, (语内） inter-lingual translation （语际） inter-semiotic translation （符际）
Principles for Translation
• Yan Fu’s Triple Principle for Translation : 信(faithfulness) ideas and content 达(expressiveness) fluid, smooth easy to read and understand 雅（elegance) exquisite, graceful
Principles for Translation
• Tytler’s Three Point Translation:
a complete transcript of the ideas the same style and manner all the ease of the original
Summary
• Definition of Translation
Roman Jacobson Dubois Nida 许渊冲 刘重德
Summary
• • • • • Principle of Translation 严复 刘重德 sion about Translation
• The Origin of Translation the Towel of Babel
a Brief Discussion about Translation
Four interrelated stories about lost in communication between different cultures.
Definition of Translation
• Dubois: Translation is the expression in one language (or target language) of what has been expressed in another (source language), preserving semantic and stylistic equivalences. Eugene Nida &Peter Newmark : Translating consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source language message first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style. Message: both oral and written
• Liu Chongde’s Triple Principle for Translation: 信（faithfulness) 达（expressiveness) 切（closeness): adapt the translation version to the original style as close as possible