A Report On The Translation Of Single,Carefree,mellow

This report summarizes the translation practice of the story The Dive Bar in the novel Single,Carefree,Mellow by Katherine Heiny.Katherine Heiny is an American contemporary woman writer.Her works are featured with profound thoughts and exquisite writing style.Single,Carefree,Mellow is her outstanding debut,and the story The Dive Bar has no English version so far.Katherine Heiny writes stories that quietly highlight the dramas of dating life,from teenage-hood through adulthood.Heiny writes about both lovers growing estranged through social media,and young girls learning about the power of their own sexualities,with wry humor.Dialogue is an indispensable part of the story The Dive Bar,which plays a key role in shaping characters and promoting the development of the plot and so on.Therefore,dialogue translation in this novel is especially important.The author discussed the dialogue translation in the story from the Reader's Response Theory.Reader's Response Theory pays much attention to the target language readers' response.The relationship between the target language readers and the target texts should be substantially the same as that which existed between the original language readers and the original texts.During the translation,the perfect embodiment of individuals' characters and their inner world,the presentation of novel language features and the equivalence of source language and target language become the main difficulties.Concerning these difficulties translator adopted many translation methods such as transfer of part of speech,proper use of colloquial languages,amplification and annotation,and also discussed the guiding role of Reader's Response Theory in the novel translation.It could be helpful to translators who might research dialogue translation in the future.