Translation of News Report2

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Translation of News Report2

• Soft News entertaining ???
• In-between
• Hard News serious ???
• News in Brief ???? (?????)
• Eg see attachment

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Translation of the Lead

• Label Lead????
• Format
• Eg Beijing, January1 (Xinhua)--- The following
  is the full text of The Peoples Dailys New Year
  Message
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Translation of the Lead

• Summary Lead ????
• Rome,Nov.8--- A provincial prosecutor, his
  driver and his bodyguard were machine-gunned to
  death on a country road south of here today by
  political terrorists, who also wounded one of
  their accomplices and later killed him.

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• Party decision stresses solid rural development
• Beijing (Xinhua)---- The Peoples Daily has
  called for better understanding of the importance
  of agriculture and rural labour. Excerpts follow
• The decision of the Chinese Communist Party
  Central Committee on further strengthening
  agriculture and labour in rural areas
  Agriculture is the foundation of Chinas economic
  development, social stability, and self-reliance.
  There would be no stability or progress in
  society without stability and progress in rural
  areas. Furthermore, the countrys modernization
  cannot be achieved if China fails to attain
  agricultural modernization.
• P.205

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Translated Version for Eg. P.205

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• U.S. Teenagers Work, Spend
• New York--- Ladonnia Fullmer, a 17-year-old high
  school senior in Los Altos, California, works 25
  hours a week and earns 500 a month doing
  housework and baby-sitting.
• American teenagers have always worked for extra
  pocket money. But as recent national studies,
  interviews with experts and discussions with
  parents and teenagers around the country show,
  Fullmer belongs to a generation of youngsters who
  have embraced a work-and-spend ethic.

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Translated Version

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Translation and Editing

• News Value
• ????Headline (topic sentence or primary
  information)
• ????News in Brief
• ???????Translation with the limitation of the
  number of words translate edit-------Translatin
  g into News Headlines or News in Brief.

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Exercises

• Mass media here say that the presidents visit
  has turned a new page in relations between the
  two countries.
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• 2. The crowd across the U.S. that cheered the
  Presidents cease-fire announcement and his
  declaration that By God, weve kicked the
  Vietnam syndrome once and for all were
  celebrating far more than Saddam Husseins defeat.

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Exercises

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Syntactic Features of News Texts

• Complex Sentence Structure
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• The Use of Direct or Indirect Quotations
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• The Use of Passive Voice

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Translation Techniques

• ???????journalistic words ?????unity of wording
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• ??????????? General English(????)Standard
  English /Conversational English / Colloquial
  English
• NOT Formal or Frozen English (???)

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Translation Techniques

• Criteria for the Translation of News Texts
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• Political ingredients, a large intended audience,
  a variety of styles of writing
• Translation Exercise Page 211 (editing)

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• Translate the following into A News Headline
• Sino-Japanese joint ventures, seven in all, in
  Nantong, reported profits this year. From January
  to September, their total output value surpassed
  100 million yuan and foreign earnings through
  export reached more than 10 million yuan. These
  figures represent a 60 percent increase over the
  same period last year.
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