A Report On The Translation Of Bloodletting And Miraculous Cures (Chapters1-2)

This paper is a description and analysis of the translation of Vincent Lam’s novel: Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (Chapters1-2). The novel is a short story collection by Vincent Lam, who is a Chinese Canadian writer. It includes twelve, interlinked stories, which introduce four young people’s transition from medical school to hospital life. This novel won the2006Scotiabank Giller Prize--Canada’s most prestigious literary award, and Vincent Lam became the youngest writer, and the first Chinese Canadian writer to win it. The first two parts of the novel tell the lives and relationships of Ming, Fitzgerald, Sri and Chen, four medical students in Toronto.There are long involved sentences in this novel, nevertheless, short sentences and the dialogues are still characteristic of it. Guided by Skopos theory, the author of this report applies amplification, division and inversion to work out these difficulties in translating long sentences, dialogues and different linguist styles of the protagonists, which all rich.the representation of the protagonists’ mental activities and their personal characters. Besides, to make the translation sound native to readers of target language, the writer resorts to domestication and semantic flexibility.Through the translation of this fiction, the author comes to realize the difficulty of literary translation, and there are still many deficiencies in this translation. As a translator, an accurate and thorough understanding of the original is the prerequisite, but at the same time, the growing mastery of Chinese is also very important. The author must accumulate miscellaneous knowledge, and enlarge the scope of it.