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Translation 2: I received your letter yesterday. Your article is very good, but I am sorry that owing to pressure of space, I find it too long to be published. Obviously, on the surface, the first translation is more ‘faithful’ than the second one, for it has translated out such expressions as ‘诵悉’、‘一是’、‘良用’, etc.. But it seems rather rigid and too formalistic. In the second translation, I think it is wise not to give an correspondence to each word as ‘诵’ ‘悉’ ‘一’ ‘是’. For since ‘I received your letter yesterday’, and ‘I’ didn’t just receive (奉) without reading(诵)or read(诵)without noting its ontent(悉), the sentence ‘I received your letter yesterday’ itself has already contained the meaning of the grammatical structure‘诵悉一是’. To do well in this respect, we should pay enough attention to the following three points.

First, idiomatic translation.

第一，习语翻译

Each language has its own idiomatic way of collocations, and in most cases it is impossible to find an expression in one language that is entirely equivalent to the one in another. For example, in Chinese we say ‘此路不通’, but you can’t take it for granted that the English version is ‘This road doesn’t go through.’. Although you have translated out all its meaning, the English version will not, at least not remind the English of a signpost saying ‘No Thoroughfare.’ Or Not a Thorough street.’ In Chinese there is a saying going like ‘招贴即撕’, and in English there is also a saying ‘Post No Bills’. You must have heard of ‘rain cats and dogs’ in English.

Someone says that this expression is originated from a North European mythology, which tells us that the heavy rain is caused by the mischief of cats and dogs. And someone says it is a metaphor to the fighting between cats and dogs. However, there are no such sayings in French, German, Russian or even Chinese. In Chinese, we say ‘大雨滂沱’. For such a saying, although a literal translation can present a correct meaning, it is not idiomatic and it does not comply with the original in function, so it is by no means faithful.

Second, the false faithfulness resulted from obligatory categories.

第二，必须的分类的虚假忠诚度

Some translations seem to be quite faithful, while in fact they are not. The reason is that each language has its own obligatory categories, which differ from language to language. For instance, in English nouns have both their singular and plural form and verbs have both their past and present tense, which it is not the same with nouns and verbs in Chinese. Also in English, ‘cousin’ means ‘child of one’s uncle or aunt’, so it does not make it clear that whether this ‘cousin’ is male or female, whether he/she is elder or younger than the speaker, whether he/she has the consanguinity with the speaker’s father or mother. However, in China, when we call somebody ‘堂兄’ ‘堂妹’ ‘表姐’ ‘表弟’, we point out all these characteristics. Thus problems occur in translation. But as long as such obligatory categories are not just as important, we can make a brief translation. Take ‘早上好，表妹’ for example, a brief translation ‘Good morning, cousin.’ is enough. Otherwise we should say ‘Good morning, my female-cousin-on-mother’s-or-paternal-aunt’s-side-younger-than-myself’. And in Ch本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。