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The source text is excerpted from Apartment 3B, a popular novel written byPatricia Scanlan, a well-known Irish author. In order to start a completely new lifesomewhere else, Liz Lacey, the heroine of the novel, is about to sell her luxuriousApartment 3B. Upon hearing the news, many elites in Dublin are itching to view theapartment and get it. Taking the deal as a starting point, by means of extensiveflashbacks, the novel gives an account of numerous stories happen to the maincharacters who are related to the apartment.

Apartment 3B consists of six chapters in total and the task excerpts the first twochapters as the source text, covering more than 27,000 English words, and when it isrendered into Chinese, the Chinese characters are counted as around 50,000.As is claimed, popular fiction’s purpose is “to sell the book or entertain the reader(Newmark, 2001 :49).”

As a prototypical popular novel, Apartment 3B also aims atsatisfying potential readers and realizing its commercial value. What is more, it isparticularly noticed that there are few intricate words or complex expressions in thesource text and that the language employed is rather close to people’s daily life andeasy to be comprehended.

Moreover, the novel is featured by its sharply-etched description of characters. InApartment 3B, Patricia Scanlan depicts many round and multi-dimensional characters,such as Liz Lacey, Hugh Cassidy, Dominic Kent, Cecily Clarke-Conroy, and the like.These distinct characters serve as great appeal to readers. Through searching on theInternet, it is found that the book is highly appraised.Areader named L.R. Silver madea comment to it on Amazon, saying, “The characters are so real, I have to keepreminding myself, even now, that this was a fictional book.” And Sophie said that she “could not put it down.” Quite a lot of readers are looking forward to its sequel actually

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1.2 Account of theAuthor

Patricia Scanlan, the author of the novel, was born and bred in Dublin. She is stillliving all the time in Dublin as well. Patricia is fond of fiction, and is indeed an expertin writing fiction.As a novelist, she has worked out manyfascinatingbooks, and almostall of her books have been international bestsellers, such as City Girl, City Woman, Twofor Joy, Foreign Affairs, Double Wedding, Divided Loyalties, Francesca’s Party,Forgive and Forget and With All MyLove. Apartment 3B is another masterwork of hers.Except for popular novels, she has also composed a number of collections of quotes,blessings, poems and reminiscences, Winter Blessings, for instance. Moreover, Patriciaboasts other identities in addition to being a famous writer. For one thing, she works asa teacherwho devotes to giving lessons in creative writing to second-level students. Foranother, she also engages herself in adult literacy as an editor and contributing authorto The Open Door Series, which is originally designed to promote adult literacy inIreland.

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Chapter Two Process Description

2.1 Before-translation Preparation

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