| Nowadays, with the development of economy, science, technology, and culturein the world, international communication draws more and more attention. People canuse many channels to understand culture of foreign countries as well as internationalaffairs, and the most important two channels are news translation and news interpreting.So we can find that these two ways draw more and more attention. However, it isimportant for us to know that there are not only similarities between news interpretingand news translation, but also differences which can not be overlooked.News contains many political elements, so the principles of expression,function of communication are similar in news translation and news interpreting. Inaddition, news has various kinds of functions, for example, reflecting culture, life, andstate affairs of a country. However, there are many differences. In News translation,because translators have comparatively more time to think and consider the specialfunction of news in the target culture, precision is higher than that in interpreting.Besides, due to limited time, some information might be misunderstood or missed, sothe degree of clarity in news interpreting is lower than that in news translation to acertain extent. What is more, time is too short for interpreters when they must listencarefully and comprehend well at the same time, so they always choose simpleexpression in order to reduce their mental burden and make the audience understandsource language more easily. Thus the version of news interpreting is more readableand simple.Why are there these differences? According to the Skopos Theory, the aim oftranslation decides ways and strategies of translation. Just because the main aim ofnews translation and news interpreting is different, the standard, target, precision, andreadability are different between news translation and news interpreting. |
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