A Report On Translating Curwood's Nomads Of The North (Excerpts)

Nowadays,with an increasing number of English version of animal fictions entering into China's market,the translation of animal fictions and its research are becoming increasingly important.James Oliver Curwood's novels enjoy a key role in American literature,especially his animal fictions,which is a treasure and wealth of world's literature.The translation report is about the translation of five chapters selected from Nomads of the North written by James Oliver Curwood.The translation report is divided into four chapters.Chapter one is an introduction to the whole report,which includes the background and description of the novel,significance and objectives of the report,the introduction of the author,and the analysis of animal's characteristics.Chapter two depicts the translation process,namely,the preparation stage and the formal translation stage.Chapter three is the description of the application of translation theory and case study.Under the theoretic guidance of Newmark's communicative translation theory,the report gives an analysis of the application of communicative translation in English-Chinese translation from lexical,syntactic,and textual layers respectively,searching for the translation skills and principles of animal fictions.Chapter four is the translator's conclusion drawn from the translation period.There are two purposes.First of all,this report offers a general process of a translation task,including the preparation work,the translation stage,the translation theory,problems and solutions.Secondly,through the translation of Curwood's animal fictions and analysis of the stylistic features and language characteristics of animal fictions,the translator hopes to draw several translation tactics of this kind of text.