Report On The Chinese Translation Of Welcome To Hard Times

The report is based on the analysis and study of the Chinese translation of Welcome to Hard Times, which describes American Western life. As the characteristic American popular novels, American Western novels show people the special environment during the formation of American society and nationality. Welcome to Hard Times reflects people’s real life in American Western society through the prosperity and decline of a small town of American West. The Dream of American West is disillusioned finally in the mingling hope and desperation. The author triggers people’s thinking on the Western “mythology” by creating an ending different from the traditional Western novels. There are still some common points of this novel with other one. The dialogues in it adopt many slangs with western culture infiltrated in them. The novel also uses a lot of straightaway vocabulary which makes the figures more vivid. The different ending that the reconstruction of the town is destroyed at the end forms a distinctive contrast with the former endeavor. The description discloses the cowardice of townspeople(including the hero) during their struggle against the villainous force. The translator tries to represent the content of the novel as well as the emotion of figures created by the author in the process of translation, paying attention to the choice of words, sentence patterns and logical relationship and cohesion of sections.The report is composed of task description, analysis and preparation before translation, procedure description, case analysis and conclusion. Under the guidance of some translation theories and skills, on the respect of the characteristics of language and text, the translator carries out the case analysis from the translation of characteristic Western vocabulary, clipped words and sentences, negative sentences and figures of speech.