| Memoir is a true record of the experience of one person in a retrospective way,so it has given a strong subjective color.This report is written on the basis of chapters14-16 of Julie Andrews’ s Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years.In this memoir,Julie Andrews mainly talks about her film career in Hollywood and her family life.She inspires readers to march forward courageously with her own experience.Therefore,it is of a certain value in translating this memoir.In this report,the translator first describes the background and significance of the translation task,and the structure of the translation practice report,so that the readers can have a clear understanding of the construction of this report.Then,she focuses on the whole process from identifying translation difficulties to solving them.Translation difficulties can be summarized into lexical and syntactic levels.At the lexical level,the difficulties involve the translation of polysemy,proper nouns,and parts of speech;at the syntactic level,the difficulties include the translation of English idioms,short sentences with dashes,and compound-complex sentences.To reproduce the source text information accurately,the translator adopts the following translation methods: firstly,the methods of semantic extension,annotation,and conversion of parts of speech are used to solve the problems at the lexical level;and then the methods of Chinese four-character expressions,addition,keeping the original sequence and reorganizing sentence structures are adopted to solve the translation difficulties at the syntactic level.Through this translation practice,the translator feels the difficulty of literary translation,and has been striving to achieve authentic Chinese expression on the premise of being faithful to the original text;While gaining valuable translation experience,the translator hopes that this report can provide some reference and enlightenment for the study of relevant text types. |
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