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In recent years, with the continuous progress of globalization, especially in the faceof the reality that the expansion of Western cultural hegemony has occupied the center ofhuman history and world order for a long time since modern times, China needs to focusmore on the construction of cultural soft power based on cultural self-confidence, andmore actively show the subjective cultural forms and values. Cultural soft power is animportant factor in measuring the overall national strength of a country[1]. It is culture thatis the national soul. A strong culture makes a country strong, while a weak culture makes acountry decline[2]. We have a splendid culture that has been passed down for five thousandyears, and oracle bone inscription is one of them.

The appearance of writings is one of the important signs of the birth of civilization.The history of a nation can only be called the history of civilization after the appearance ofwritings. Oracle bone inscription is the earliest mature writing system discovered in Chinaso far[3]. It is the source of Chinese characters and also the Chinese excellent traditionalculture’s foundation and soul. Its discovery greatly advanced the beginning time ofChinese civilization, which deserves to be treasured and better inherited and developed[4].

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1.2 Brief Introduction to the Source Text

When translating, it is necessary to grasp the information and the structure of thesource text[5]. Anecdotes on Oracle Bone Inscriptions was edited by Wang Benxing andpublished by Beijing Arts and Crafts Press in 2014. It is a popular reading aboutoracle-related knowledge. The writer of the book introduced some anecdotes in the field oforacle bone inscriptions to the readers in the form of stories, and promoted the commonsense and culture of oracle bone inscriptions to readers. The text involves someprofessional knowledge of oracle bone inscriptions, and there are also some well-knownfigures related to that field. There are thirty-eight anecdotes on oracle bone inscriptions inthe book, and the author of the report excerpts six of them for translation practice, namely,Wang Yirong - the First to Uncover the Mystery of Oracle Bones, Liu E - the Hero ofOracle Bones that Cannot Be Forgotten, On the “Carving Practice” of Oracle BoneInscriptions, Source of Oracle Bones for Divination, Anecdotes on the Remediation ofOracle Bones and Tools for Carving Inscriptions on Oracle Bones, with about 10,000words, involving fields of history and culture.

As is mentioned above, this is a popular book, so that there are a certain number ofcommonly used words. It can be seen that the author will not have much difficulty inunderstanding it. However, in terms of vocabulary, due to the large amount of historicaland cultural knowledge involved in the book, the author should consider the extent offoreign audiences’ understanding of Chinese culture when translating, and should annotateit if necessary. Secondly, from the perspective of linguistic and stylistic features, the writerof the text adopts the expression method of the third person na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。