Translation Skills (2)
Translation Skills (2)
Translation Skills (2)
Hello, everyone. Here I will continue my topic about translation skills.
2. Composition Class
A. Phrase of Sentence
Sometimes due to the use of words that show connection in the sentence, in the form it is a sentence, actually there are several independent parts in the sentence with complete meanings. You can divide them into short sentences without any efforts. And the place for division is usually at those connection words, which generally are relative pronouns, relative adverbials, dependent adverbial, accompanying verbs etc.
B. Syntactic Amalgams
If there are two or more than two sentences formally, while they are in relative meanings. Only if the translation is not too long, you can state the whole meaning in one sentence. E.g. if a simple sentence and a composite sentence own the same objective, you can be combined into co-constituent of one sentence; for shorter attributive clause or adverbial clause, they can be shorted as modifier for objective.
3. Conversion Attribution
A. Conversion of Sentence Elements
In the above, we mentioned that words can be sequential translation, do does sentence element. The conversion of sentence elements is usually caused by the grammatical relation between collocation of verbs and nouns in translation text.
B. Conversion of The Passive Voice
Some sentences in passive voice can be translated directly, while most of the sentences in passive voice need to be converted when translating thus it can be much easier for Chinese to understand because there are less passive voice sentences in Chinese culture.
The following are some common method for passive voice sentence translation: 1st, you can reduce the sentence into active sentence. You can reduce the action issuer after "by" as objective, or adding "people " "we" or some other action issuer that has been eliminated in original text as objective. 2nd, you can form active sentence. You can translate the sentence with the use of those words such as "by, of, from etc" into active sentence. 3rd, you can convert the sentence into automatic sentence. By choosing verbs in Chinese translation text, you can convert the action bearer in English text into objective in translation text.
4. Ellipsis
It refers to ellipsis some words in original text without translation on the condition that it will never affect the complete meaning. E.g. the measure words mentioned above, it can be omitted when translating into English; most possessive pronouns can be omitted when translating.
5. Parallel and Repetition
When explaining some meaning of repetition in English, it usually uses sharing, substitute or conversion. While in Chinese, there are usually plenty of repetition words to strengthen the power of words. E.g. in English you can use possessive pronouns to replace nouns before; as for verb phrase, you can only repeat preposition and omit main verbs. When translating into Chinese, you may consider repetition.
Actually no matter how accurate you translate the original text, there will still be some differences. E.g, the Chinese word "shouji" can be translated into two English words cell-phone(http://www.dinodirect.com/iphone-cases-f-cell-phone-pda-accessories/) and mobile phone. In Chinese, they refer to the same thing, while in English, there are some difference between them. Cell-phone only means "shouji", and mobile phone means all the phones that can be taken away with you, portable phones. It is evident that mobile phone contains cell-phone.
But in order to communicate with other countries, we need to learn more about other countries' culture. Though some difference cannot be eliminated when translating, what we can do it to state the original text in another language clearly and accurately. Maybe most of us will not a translator, but when we talked with foreigners, it is a kind of translation, at this time, you should try to get the main meaning clearly.
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