A Report On The Translation Of Persons And Their Minds

Currently,much pressure in life can be exactly accountable for series of mental or psychological problems,illnesses and even suicides.However,the sufferers seldom realize the troubles or never know how to solve them until the mental breakdown.The translation of Persons and Their Minds,an academic work with an overview of theories and studies of the minds,can not only achieve its blossoming development domestically and exchanges internationally,but also enable the studies on psychological issues readily accessible to ordinary beings,rendering them a mentally wholesome life.The academic work of Persons and Their Minds is featured by formal,logical and connotative sentences and Catford?s translation shift theory focuses on huge differences of lexis and syntax among languages.Therefore,the attempts to apply Catford?s translation shift theory into the academic text to analyze translation shift phenomena are of great values.Via level shifts and category shifts,it is possible to make the target language natural and expressive.Meanwhile,fruitless achievements and the lack of such researches highlighting the application of translation shift theory into academic texts,provide a potential innovation for this translation practice.Through a series of translation practice processes including selection and analysis of the source text,preparations,translating,proofreading,case analysis and so forth,it turns out that rationality and feasibility of English-Chinese translation shifts are identified by analyzing persuasive cases,which can actually guide English-Chinese translation practice and make the target text smooth,effective and acceptable.Figure 0;Table 1;Reference 31...