Project Report Of The Dialogue Translation Of The Scarlet Letter

Foreign literary works have been introduced to our country in early time. Due to the diligence and hard work of scholars and translators, we can read high quality works and enjoy the wisdom of great men. Translation of literary works plays an important role in the cultural exchange among different countries and the translation results directly affect reader’s thinking and cognition, so literary translation exerts high demands on the translator.Novel is one of the important literature forms, and character dialogues are important part of the novel. To recreate the style of character dialogues and linguistic characteristics on the basis of being loyal to the original text is the key points and difficulties of the fictional dialogue translation. In this report, the "faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance" theory is taken as a standard and literal translation and free translation methods are taken as the translation strategy. Both the translation theory and methods play fundamental role on dialogue translation. According to the study purpose, four main dialogue chapters of The Scarlet Letter are selected for translation practice. In this report, the translation texts of Yao Naiqiang, Fang Huawen and mine are chosen to analyze the application of literal translation and free translation in the dialogue text. The analysis is made in terms of vocabulary, sentence and cultural difference. It’s hoped that this report can provide appropriate methods for dialogue translation.