Key points summary

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Unit 1

• Key points summary

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Activity 1 Literal Vs. free translations

• The eight paradoxes of translation raised in this
  activity are mostly centered around the struggle
  between literal translation against free
  translation. The formal focuses on a
  word-for-word translation of the source text into
  the target text while the latter involves
  language adjustment in the process of
  translation.

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Activity 1 Literal Vs. free translations

• 1. He told me he would come, and I
• also have something to tell him.
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• 2. He walked at the head of the funeral
• procession, and every now and then
• wiped his crocodile tears with a big
• handkerchief.
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• ?????????????

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Activity 1 Literal Vs. free translations

• 3. It rains cats and dogs.
• ?????
• 4.It goes very much against the grain with me
• that the name of the writer should ever be
• suppressed.
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Activity 1 Literal Vs. free translations

• No matter what method you may use, your
  translation
• should be correct, comprehensible to the target
  reader and
• close to the original style. Only when you keep
  the meaning
• and spirit of the original sentence structure
  and/or its figure
• of speech can your translation be regarded as
  proper literal
• translation, otherwise it is merely mechanical
  translation.
• Similarly, only when change the original sentence
  structure
• and/or the figure of speech but make no addition
  or deletion
• of the original meaning and spirit, can your
  translation be
• regarded as proper translation otherwise it is
  simply
• random translation.

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Activity 2 Designative Vs. associative meanings

• The designative meaning of a word (???) refers to
  the object, people, plant, animal, place, etc.
  that it representswhile the associative meaning
  of a word (???) is the idea,quality, state,
  circumstance, etc. that it makes you think of.

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Activity 2 Designative Vs. associative meanings

• 1. Im a man of my words, and Ill do what I say.
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• 2. Why cant you be a man and face the challenge
  bravely?
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• 3. Hes not his own man since his mother-in-law
  came to stay.
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Activity 2 Designative Vs. associative meanings

• The designative meaning of the word
• man is a male adult while the word has various
• associative meanings in different contexts, such
  as
• a trust-worthy person, courage or the state
  of
• being happy and carefree. A translator needs to
  consider both kinds of meanings for the
  achievement of a correct, comprehensible and
  close translation.

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Activity 3 Changing the positions of some phrases

• Changing the positions of some phrases (????)
• involves changing the positions of the subject,
  predicate,
• attribute, adverbial, ect. of English when it is
• being translated into Chinese.

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Activity 3 Changing the positions of some phrases

• 1. Many cracks began to appear on the city wall
  during that wall.
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• ?)
• 2. Whats your opinion?asked the teacher.
• ????????? (????)
• 3. On and on he talked.
• ?????????(????)

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Activity 4 Changing phrases or words into
sentences

• A word or a noun, attributive or adverbial
  phrase in
• English can be changed into a sentence when it is
  being
• translated into Chinese (????) , especially if it
  has
• rich meanings.

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Activity 4 Changing phrases or words into
sentences

• 1.Tobacco addicts remain hopelessly blind to
  signs that
• say No Smoking.
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• ??(????)
• 2. Scofflaws abound in amazing variety.
• ?????????,?????(????)
• 3. The project was known as the Outpost
  Mission--one of
• the cold wars most closely guarded secrets.
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• ???????????????(??????)

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Why not do the supplementary exercises for
further practice? The keys and comments are also
provided for your reference.