Make a fashionable bilingual person: English-Chinese translation techniques: English-Chinese translation techniques

Author: Lin Peiting
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Quick Charge Series. The editing goal of this book is to guide translation beginners to gain an insight into the mysteries of this field. The chapters "Overview of English-Chinese Translation" and "Basic Translation Difficulties" summarize the views of renowned experts on translation, the fundamental differences between Chinese and English, the qualities translators should possess, and the common translation challenges faced by beginners, helping you prepare mentally before you start. The next five chapters—"Five Principles of English-Chinese Translation," "Translation of Various Parts of Speech," "Translation of Special English Sentence Patterns," "Translation of Chinese Idioms," and "Translation of English Idioms"—are the key focus of the book, guiding you to encounter the most common translation difficulties faced by translators and the commonly used methods to solve these challenges. A good translator must have the spirit of perseverance and the pursuit of truth. In the chapter "How to Avoid Word Errors," it reminds you of the words that are easily used incorrectly, urging you not to fall into traps, and lists some dictionaries that are helpful for translation as a reference for choosing reference books. At the end of the book, there is an "Example of Common Translation Errors," which proposes 120 errors in "Chinese Translation into English" and "English Translation into Chinese," along with corrections and analyses, hoping readers will not repeat the same mistakes. Quick Charge Series. The editing goal of this book is to guide translation beginners to gain an insight into the mysteries of this field. The chapters "Overview of English-Chinese Translation" and "Basic Translation Difficulties" summarize the views of renowned experts on translation, the fundamental differences between Chinese and English, the qualities translators should possess, and the common translation challenges faced by beginners, helping you prepare mentally before you start. The next five chapters—"Five Principles of English-Chinese Translation," "Translation of Various Parts of Speech," "Translation of Special English Sentence Patterns," "Translation of Chinese Idioms," and "Translation of English Idioms"—are the key focus of the book, guiding you to encounter the most common translation difficulties faced by translators and the commonly used methods to solve these challenges. A good translator must have the spirit of perseverance and the pursuit of truth. In the chapter "How to Avoid Word Errors," it reminds you of the words that are easily used incorrectly, urging you not to fall into traps, and lists some dictionaries that are helpful for translation as a reference for choosing reference books. At the end of the book, there is an "Example of Common Translation Errors," which proposes 120 errors in "Chinese Translation into English" and "English Translation into Chinese," along with corrections and analyses, hoping readers will not repeat the same mistakes.