| The report is based on The Girls at 17 Swann Street,a full-length popular fiction by American Fulbright Scholar Yara Zgheib.This popular fiction describes the daily life of anorexics by using accurate and concise language.The novel is moderate in the language difficulty,inventive and fashionable in its topic,and is of social influence and social value.The main difficulty of in this novel translation is that the target text not only should convey the novel’s stylistic features,but also should conform to the novel’s unique writing styles.During the process of translation practice,the translator finds that there are obvious differences between Chinese and English.In order to make the effect of reading the translation as close as possible to the effect of reading the source text,it is necessary to consider the readers’ feelings and use authentic Chinese to reproduce the essence of the source text.In order to make the target language readers feel the beauty of the works as well as the source language readers,this practice report analyzes typical examples from lexical and syntactic levels,so as to make the target text fluent and accessible to the target readers to read.Addition,omission and conversion are used to eliminate the vocabulary barriers for readers.Combination,inversion,division and negation are used to make the target text clearer and easier to understand.Through this translation practice and report writing,the translator has improved the ability to summarize and analyze the problems and to match the appropriate translation skills and enhanced the understanding of novels on the basis of following the differences between English and Chinese.And it is hoped to offer some meaningful reference for the translations of similar texts. |
