波士頓女孩第一、二章翻譯實踐報告

1、重慶師范大學 慶師范大學翻譯 翻譯碩士學位論文 碩士學位論文《波士頓女孩 波士頓女孩》（第一、二章）翻譯實踐報告 翻譯實踐報告碩士研究生： 薛云指 導 教 師：嵇志梅（副教授）學 科 專 業(yè)：翻譯碩士 (英語筆譯)所 在 學 院：外國語學院重慶師范大學2016 年 4 月重慶師范大學碩士學位論文 AbstractIAbstractThis is an English-Chinese translation report based on

2、 material excerpted fromthe novel:The Boston Girl. The novel, consisting of 9 chapters, is an inspirational fictionwhich mainly elaborates a Boston girl Addie Baum who survived in Boston in the early20th century during t

3、he feminist movement. Addie’s intelligence and curiosity take herto a world that her parents can’t imagine— a world of short skirts, movies, celebrityculture, and new opportunities for women; a world where women can fini

4、sh high school,go to college, have a career, and find true love on their own. The Boston Girl is amoving portrait of one woman’s complicated life in twentieth-century America and afascinating look at a generation of wome

5、n finding their places in a changing world.Looking back to the whole translation process, the translator mainly studied thetranslation of rhetoric, culture-loaded words，the dialogue and the headings of the text.During th

6、e translation process, the translator adopted various translation strategiesflexibly such as sentence transformation, omission, substitution, semantic translation,communicative translation and so on.The translator met a

7、lot of key and difficult points,in the way how to deal with these key and difficult sentences, the translator tookcomparative law, by contrast finding a better translation. What the translator found isthat: There was no

8、absolute semantic translation and communicative translation, in theactual process of translation, they were complementary, our translation process shouldconsider the type of translation purposes, the characteristics of t

9、he reader and text.During the whole translation, the translator received her tutor’s help. With herhelp, the translator had looked up relative books to learn the cultural background andalso read a lot of translation repo

10、rts, references, especially in dealing with the specialcustoms and culture-loaded words. The translator tried her best to make the translationtext naturally equal with the original text. Finally, the translator faithfull

11、y translated thenovel, based on the theory and practice of translation she has learned.Key Words: translation of dialogue, translation of heading, culture loaded words,rhetorical device, communicative and semantic transl