Translation of News Reports

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Translation of News Reports

• Types of News Texts
• News reports----- objectivity, accuracy,
  effectiveness and promptness.
• Feature storiesNarrations
• Comments.or Commentaries
• ----- subjectivity, personal novelty

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Composition of A News Report

1. Title or Headline highlights the topic concerned
2. Lead or Introduction usually in the first
   para.---- 5/6 Ws.
3. Body gives a terse and clear description of the
   event under discussion---- 3 categories in view
   of its writing style

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Three Categories of Body

• Chronological Account time of occurrence
• Pyramid form in the order of ascending
  importance
• Inverted Pyramid form in the order of descending
  significance, focusing on news value and readers
  interest

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Inverted Pyramid

• Introduction containing most imp. striking
  information
• More facts
• Supporting infor. background
• Quotes or facts of less importance
• Minor details
• The least imp. Infor.

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Translation of the Title

• As the eye, it has to be eye-catching,succinct
  novel
• 1. Italian Ex-Mayor Murdered
• ?????????
• 2. Win or Lose, They All Scored Big
• ????,???????
• 3. Rail Chaos Getting Worse
• ????????????
• 4.When America Itself is the Target
• ?????????????

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Translation Methods

• Literal Translation
• Eg Japan on Track for Tepid Recovery
• ????????????
• Free or Liberal Translation
• Eg Overseas-funded Firms Mushrooming
• ????????
• Addition Interpretation ??????????
• Eg India Mending Fences
• ????????????

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Structural features

• Title in the form of phrases
• ?head word post-modifier
• Eg a. Three dead after inhaling oven gas
• ??????,??????
• b. Financier killed by burglars
• ????,?????
• c. Pope to visit Japan in February
• ????????

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Structural features

• ? Pre-modifier head word
• Eg a. The color lines
• ????
• b. Terror Cradle
• ???????
• c. Shotgun Death Riddle Drama
• ????,????
• e. Channel Tunnel Halt
• (?????)????????

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Structural features

• 2. Title in the form of sentences
• ?complete sentences
• Eg MPs want Tougher Watchdog
• ?????????????
• US Budget Calls for Dollar Devaluation
• ??????????
• Arafat Walks out of the Jordan Peace Talks
• ??????????

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Structural features

• ?incomplete sentences
• eg
• When police hide behind the shield of the law
• ???????????
• ?omission of articles, conjunctions,linking verbs
  auxiliaries
• Eg (The) lives (which had )Just Begun Fell
  Victim(s) to AIDS.
• ?????????????????
• Married Women (are) to Get Allowance
• ?????????

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Punctuation Marks

• 1. Comma for and
• Eg US, Vietnam Resume Talks
• Teenagers Work, Spend
• Colon for stress or interpretation (to be, say)
• Eg Presidents hit list budget items scheduled
  to get the axe
• ??????????????????
• Chinese CooksMasters at Turning a
  Turnip(??) into a Flower

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Rhetorical Devices

• Accusers Accused( alliteration)
• After the Boom Years, Everything is gloom
• (rhyme)
• A vow to zip his lips (hyperbole)
• Liberty, Equality and Insecurity (irony)
• Other figures of speech
• Contrast, metaphor,etc.
• America Wins and Loses in Iraqi War
• A Cradle of Terror

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Translated Version

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• ????,????
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• ??,??,???
• ?????????????
• ???????

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• Neologism Slangs
• Neologism from composition or blending
• Eg Blackmart, job-hop, Reaganomics, Euromart,
  masscult, stagflation, sportscaster
• Black market, job hopper, European Common Market,
  Mass Culture, sports broadcaster, stagnation
  inflation
• Slangs
• Big Bucks for IT Employees

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Journalistic Present Tense

• Simple present present continuous
• ----- a sense of freshness, reality and immediacy
  
• past participles, present participles,
  infinitive phrases
• Eg see p.200 in the textbook
• Oil giant expands further overseas(past action)
• Chinese leader to visit India (future action)
• Hundreds missing in storm-hit India (past,
  progressive,active)
• Military Aircraft Made Available for
  Evacuation(past passive)

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Journalistic Words

• Words frequently appearing with relatively
  constant, fixed meaning in translation ( active
  passive)
• Report ??
• Quote ??
• Source(s) ??
• According to as a post modifier in Eng. And a
  pre-modifier in Chinese.

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• Exercises on P 213 (report)
• A reliable source
• A well-informed source
• A source who asked to remain anonymous
• A source close to the US Secretary of State

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Abbreviations Acronyms

• Heli prez, uni, biz, grad, prof, regs, pic,
  cig, GMT, PA, pub,
• Helicopter, president, university, business,
  graduates, publisher, regulations, cigarette,
  personal assistant,

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Daily Words with Specific Meanings

• Hawk / Dove basket dropout blue-collar egg
  exotic foothold get to first base looking
  glass moonlight (v.) needle roommate
  slippage umbrella
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Acronyms for English Newspapers and News Agencies

• SE Sunday Express
  APAssociated Press
• DM Daily Mirror / Daily Mail
  PA Press Association
• IHT International Herald Tribune
• NYT REUTERS
• WP Washington Post CD China Daily
• CSMThe Christian Science Monitor
• Exclusive ( Exclusive by)

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Other English Newspapers Magazines

• Businessweek
• The Economist
• Far East Economic Review
• Financial Times
• Forbes
• Fortune
• The Guardian
• National Geographic
• The Observer
• Punch
• USA Today
• The Wall Street Journal