A Report On The Translation Of The Novel Ship For Brains (Chapters Ⅱ & ⅩⅣ)

Novel, as an indispensable partner in people’s life, is often taken along by people whether they are busy or free. However, as a translator, translating novels can not only increase his/her translation ability, but also can provide convenience for others to read. As far as the author is concerned, novel translation has gradually become the first choice for students when they choose the translation project. In the novel Ship for Brains, some local dialects, uncertain vocabularies and difficult sentences often appear. However, due to cultural differences between China and Western countries, the local dialects translation has always been a difficult problem in the process of translation. In the face of such problems, the author adopts corresponding translation strategies and translation skills. Hence, after solving these problems, the author can gain a lot of benefits from it in the future. For novel translation, the most important thing is to keep the whole style consistent and the semantics coherent, which is also a great challenge for translators. Through this practice, the author has deeply realized the importance of ensuring the translation fluent, concise and easy to be understood and avoiding basic errors. Either English-Chinese translation or Chinese-English translation, translators are required to control the quality of the version, ensure the fluency of the text and the normalization of the sentence pattern on the basis of fully understanding the original text.This report is mainly based on the translation practice task of the materials cited in the appendix, which has a total of 15,082 Chinese characters. It is basically divided into three parts:introduction, main body and conclusion.The first part is the introduction which mainly gives a brief introduction to the novel, the author of the novel and the translation project.The second part is the main body which consists of three chapters:In the first chapter, the author describes the translation process. After a full understanding of the text, the author has done some preparation work and described some problems that he has met during the translation process and some proofreading and revision work performed after accomplishing the task.In the second chapter, the author makes the case analysis. The author puts forward the difficulties that he has met in the process of translation, which includes uncertain words, complex sentences and local dialects. However, according to different problems, the author presents the corresponding solution as well.In the third chapter, the author states the strategies and skills in translating novels. Some strategies and skills available in novel translation are presented.The last part is the conclusion. The author summaries the unresolved problems, states the accumulated experience and indicates the great influence on the future work and learning.Through this practice task, the author not only learns some related knowledge in novel translation, but also increases his own translation ability. Furthermore, it can establish a solid foundation for future work. And at the same time, the author hopes that this report can provide some reference for other translators.