Strategies For Avoiding Chinglish In Chinese To English Translation

University online news embodies the features in both newspaper texts and publicity articles.When translating such texts from Chinese to English,translators are inevitably confined by the content and form of the Chinese texts and then produce a kind of English with Chinese characteristics.The writer translated the a lot of online news for Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and had his translation reviewed and edited by native speakers,which was finally posted on the website of the university.Comparing his translation with the final version published on the website,the writer also spots Chinglish in his own translation.Such Chinglish is distinctive.In terms of words,it includes unnecessary nouns and verbs,unnecessary modifiers,redundant twins;as for sentence structure,there are noun plague,reference problems,subordination and logical connectives.Such problems are mainly caused in two ways: first,the original texts contain too many expressions that easily give rise to Chinglish;second,the translator does not fully understand the original texts and wants to “faithfully” reproduce the content in English,which leads to redundancy most of the time.The writer proposes feasible ways to avoid or reduce Chinglish in this thesis.For example,translators may find and delete the unnecessary nouns,verbs,modifiers and the redundant twins in terms of words;the sentences can be improved by replacing nouns with verbs,replacing improper pronouns and antecedents and clarifying the subordination and logic.These are the ways to effectively avoid or reduce Chinglish in Chinese to English translation,help translators improve their skills and achieve a better effect in the target language.