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Education serves as an essential factor in the development and innovation of science andtechnology, and China attaches great importance to the school. When carry out educationreforms, China also borrows some of the educational theories and methods from westerncountries as reference.Through a review of relevant domestic literature, it is found that Chinesescholars often criticize “utilitarian education” as the drawback of education, which causespeople's misunderstanding of British utilitarian education in the 19th century (Zhu & Tang,2007; Xiao, 2015). The translation practice of the book Education will help domestic readersunderstand the application of utilitarianism into education more objectively. The history ofMill's claims about education still seems to be instructive for the further advancement ofmodern education reform. In this translation practice, the translation quality of the source textdirectly affects people's understanding of Utilitarianism, so it is necessary for the translator toaccurately interpret the source text to guarantee an accurate and faithful target text.

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1.2 Introduction to the Source Text

The source text Education, which discusses education matters from the perspective ofassociation psychology, is written by James Mill for Britain encyclopedia. The source textconsists of an introduction and four sections. The introduction serves as a guidance for thedifferent questions which the four parts involved. Section One explains the human mind anddraws its importance in education.After providing a general sketch of the human mind, SectionTwo keeps on elaborating that the four qualities of mind, namely “intelligence,” “temperance,”“justice,” “generosity,” could be endowed through education. Section Three explains that thereis no determining factor at the end of the training. Finally, Section Four shows that educationcan work through both the physical and moral kind. The translator chose Sections One to Four as her source text, leaving only the part about moral kind untranslated.

As the title Education implies, it contains a large amount of specialized knowledge.Through the cohesive and concise exposition, Mill aims at pursuing personal and other's“happiness,” which enriches the utilitarianism educational concept and enlightens us deeply.Therefore, this book has a significant influence on the British educational reform anddevelopment of the time.

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Chapter Two Translation Process Description

2.1 Preparation Section

A sound preparation before the translation lays an essential foundation for a goodtranslation. Before starting the translation, the translator made a detailed timetable and thenendeavored to execute the project according to it. Given that any emergency might happenduring the process, some extra time has been reserved for making sure the project will beaccomplished punctually. Because the translation material concerns philosophy and psychology,which are not the major of the translator, she made preparations for the translation of Educationfrom two aspects: a thoro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。