| In recent years,a wave of enthusiasm for learning English has swept across the world.Confucius institute is very popular in many countries.Without doubt,it promotes the spread of Chinese culture around the world,but also symbolizes that a vibrant cultral environment flourishes well.At the same time,the promotion of excellent works in Chinese has been paid more and more attention.So translation plays an important role in cultural exchange between East and West.The Origin and Evolution of Chinese Characters was written for children.Its author told stories of many Chinese characters in naturaland humorous language style.The readers can learn the meaning of Chinese characters from these books,and also understand profoundly Chinese traditional culture.This report is on the translation of The Origin and Evolution of Chinese Characters by Qiu Zhaoyu.It consists of four parts:Part one is the introduction of the translation mission,gives a brief introduction to the author,the original text and so on.Part two is about the whole process of translation,including preparatory phase,translation phase and revising phase.Part three,the main body of the thesis,is for the difficulties and solution in the translation and focuses on the translation of compound sentences in Chinese.To make progress in translation,the last part is a conclusion on the translation and carries out a reflection on practice.It is hoped that this report is able to offer some references to the translation of other works,which is similar to The Origin and Evolution of Chinese Characters. |
