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A Report On Translating Cleopatra: A Life

Posted on:2015-06-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J X JuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330422483037Subject:Translation
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This report is an analysis of the American Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff’s biographyCleopatra: A Life and its translation process. Case study is the main approach adopted inwriting this report. Translation techniques used here are sorted into three levels, includingliteral translation with a note (or notes), lexical accommodation and syntactic accommodation.Moreover, during the process of proofreading and revising, with modulation of the book title’stranslation, employment of Chinese four-character structure and restruction of sentencestructures included, measures are adopted to improve and polish the translation. Everytechnique and measure is explained with one or more cases.
Keywords/Search Tags:Cleopatra, translation techniques, revision
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