萊特兄弟第一、二章的翻譯實踐報告

1、學校代碼 學校代碼 ： 10172 10172 研究類型： 研究類型： 應用研究學 號 ： 156440741 156440741 中圖分類號： 中圖分類號： H31 H31大 連 外 國 語 大 學 大 連 外 國 語 大 學碩 士 學 位 論 文 碩 士 學 位 論 文題 目:《萊特兄弟》（第一、二章）的翻譯實踐報告培養(yǎng)學院（系、所）： 培養(yǎng)學院（系、所）： 高級翻譯學院 高級翻譯學院學 科 專 業(yè): 英語筆譯 英語筆譯研 究 生

2、姓 名: 郭佳美 郭佳美指導教師姓名及職稱 指導教師姓名及職稱: 潘智丹 潘智丹 教授 教授論 文 答 辯 時 間: 2017 年 5 月 26 日IIIABSTRACT ABSTRACTA Report on the Translation of The Wright Brothers (Chapter One and Two)This translation report is based on the first two chap

3、ters of The Wright Brotherswritten by David McCullough, which describes the extraordinary life of the brothers.As a biography, the source text features both informative text and expressive text.With such characteristics,

4、 the translation text should attach significance to accuracy aswell as aesthetic values. During the translation practice, the translator found threetypical problems, including the translation of negative words, the struc

5、ture ofadjectives modifying nouns, and comparative degree sentences.These three kinds of problems have something in common: in certain context,the translator should pay more attention to their pragmatic meanings than the

6、iroriginal grammatical and semantic meanings. If literal translation is used, the sentencewill be tedious and obscure, which is so strange that Chinese readers cannotunderstand it. Therefore, the relation between these w

7、ords and structures on one hand,and other sentence elements on the other, should be taken into consideration. Sentencegroups are translation units and readers’ response is translation standard. Not onlyshould the transla

8、tion include all the information, but also show the beauty of theoriginal text. When facing different situations, the translator can change the sentenceorder, transform the word class and take many other translation stra

9、tegies.Through the translation practice and report writing, the translator has a moreimpressive understanding of translation. In the meanwhile, the translator comes upwith some solutions and suggestions based on the prob

10、lems encountered during theprocess. The translator sincerely hopes these methods will provide some referencesfor the translation of similar source texts.Key Words: biography; negative words; the structure of adjectives m