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4.1.1 Concepts and Evolution of Translation Memes.............. 13

4.1.2 Translation Strategies .................14

Chapter Five CASE ANALYSIS UNDER THE PRODUCTION STRATEGIES .................19

5.1 Syntactic Strategies .............19

5.1.1 Phrase Structure Change ................19

5.1.2 Clause Structure Change............ 20

Chapter Five CaseAnalysis under the Production Strategies

5.1 Syntactic Level

5.1.1 Phrase Structure Change

A language unit composed of two or more words according to certain structuralrules and semantic relations is called a phrase. In both Chinese and English, there areseveral frequently phrase structure are used : (1)Modifier-noun Phrase, including ①adjective + noun, such as: beautiful flowers; great people; ② quantifier + noun, such as:a glass of water, a customer; ③ noun + noun, such as: school library, apple tree; ④pronoun + noun, such as: his name; (2)Verb-object phrases, including ①verb + noun,such as: respect life, love work; ②verb + pronoun, such as: lose them, miss everyone;(3) Verb-complement phrase, such as: well written, sitting on a stone.

As Chesterman mentioned, this strategy refers to the change happened at the levelof phrase, including number, definiteness and modification in the noun phrase, andperson, tense and mood in the verb phrase. I will give some examples how the phrasechange happened freely in translation:

Example 1:

ST：Someone forced her down, the other shoved fabric covered in sweat and grimeinto her mouth. (p2)

TT：有人把她推倒在地，另一个人把发出汗味、沾满污垢的布塞进了她的嘴里。

The phrase structure of “covered in sweat and grime” is verb+noun, in a passivevoice. Actually, it is a compound phrase that can be divided into “covered in sweat andcovered in grim”. English is a language prefers long sentences with complex sentencepatterns, while Chinese prefers short patterns. Therefore, I changed the phrase structureof the original text into adjective + noun: “发出汗味、沾满污垢的布”。

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Chapter SixConclusion

6.1 Major Findings

There are not that much translation reports have been written on the basis oftranslation meme theory previously. After the completion of the project, the instructiverole of memes theory on translation is totally demonstrated. My first translated versionis very plain at first, but the other theory inspired me in further proofreading andmodification, bringing about a relatively satisfactory result. During the translationprocess, some major findings are accumulated as following:

First, strong memes and weak memes are both contained in language, but only thestrong memes can be widely used by people and constantly copied and spread. On thecontrary, as time goes by, some language memes are no longer used by people andgradually disappear. These language memes are weak memes or dead memes. Learningfrom genotype and phenotype, I substituted some flat translation expression with strongmemes conforming to Chinese readers’ intrigue, such as net lingo, idioms, etc. Thetarget text is enriched with a sen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。