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The unified part of speech of a word inEnglish doesn’t mean that the word would play the same way in Chinese.Abstractnouns have different meanings in the context,and it could not translate all of theminto nouns in Chinese.Therefore,functional equivalence theory is an appropriateprinciple to guide the translation of the formal non-equivalence.

3.1.1 A Brief Introduction to Functional Equivalence Theory

Eugene A.Nida’s Functional Equivalence theory is applied to guide the translation.Nida mentioned functional equivalence in his book From One Language to Anotherfor the first time.Nida's definition of translation indicates that translation is not onlyto attain lexical equivalence,but also semantic,stylistic and stylistic equivalence.Theinformation conveyed by translation contains both superficial lexical information anddeep cultural information.The ideal was that“the translator should translate so that the effect of the translation on the target reader is roughly the same as the effect of thesource text once was on the source reader.”(Nida,1969).

4 Conclusion

4.1 Major Findings

Through the translation practice under the guidance of functional equivalencetheory,the author believes that most of the abstract nouns in context can be translatedword for word.but the following situation can be considered if they cannot:

When conversion is applied,the abstract nouns are likely to be used for balancingsentence structure or exist by grammar requirement.Most of them are apt to beconverted to a verb or adjective or adverb in target language.If there is a modifierbefore them,the modifier would be converted as well.

When category words are added,generally the abstract nouns are quality abstractnouns or nature abstract nouns.Their original meaning does not change but thecorresponding expression in the target language must change to comply with the habitof Chinese readers.

When omission is applied,the abstract nouns often are modified by adjectiveswhich have their corresponding nouns in bilingual context.However,this point needs to be verified in future study.

When specification is applied,the abstract nouns often have extension meaningsin different contexts.Their meanings in sentences are linked to the original meanings,but they are more or less changed according to the contexts.The following translationtechniques can be used in translation:addition,repetition,division,and so on.Thekey to define the exact meaning of them is the context.Most of these cases can not betranslated word for word.

These findings are the conclusion through the study of translation of the selectedtext,which cannot cover all the situation of translation of abstract nouns in popularscience text.

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