Translation Report Of Roderick Hudson (Chapter â…©)

The translation assignment of Roderick Hudson is a part of the Bilingual Project, launchedby Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and cooperated by Henan University. Thetask has been completed by our group which consists of six members. Chapter Ten andChapter Eleven are in the charge of me. This paper is based on the translation of Chapter Tenfor the limitation of the length.Roderick Hudson is a novel by Henry James. It was first published in1875as a serialin The Atlantic Monthly. As a bildungsroman it traces the development of the title character,a sculptor. This novel is a description of a young man who is full of artistic temperament andsimilar to Icarus, who flies too close to the sun. Roderick cannot be saved from the path toself-destruction he seems set on. At last he died in a storm. Chapter Ten just describes thegloomy period of Roderick Hudson, who looses his inspiration and shakes off the control ofRowland at that time while he falls in love with a lady he cannot ever have. This task is ofgreat meaningfulness, for there is no Chinese vision in China. The translation of this noveloffers the possibility to ordinary Chinese reader to get much knowledge about Henry Jamesand the European and American culture.This paper consists of five parts. The first part simply introduces the source andrequirements about the assignment, and the general information about the writer and hismasterpieces. The second part records the process of the whole task, which covers thepreparation, the drill and the amendment of the translation. The third part summarizes themain difficulties during the translation, and also puts forward some adopted strategies to solvethem under the instruction of functional equivalence, which are explained with the analysis oftypical cases. The last two parts emphasize the great benefit and the enlightment from this translation experience.This experience makes a great contribute to my understanding of translation, especiallythe academic translation. It also supplies a deal of instruction and advice to my futuretranslation career, which will benefit me forever.