Practice Report Of Translation On When Patty Went To College

The writer happened to read Jean Webster’s novel in college, and were deeply moved by the fresh and youthful tone. It is why she chooses Jean’s novel as the material. When Patty Went to College is the first novel of Jean Webster. It describes a series of humorous things happened on Patty in a girls’college, and shows the readers an outgoing, lively and cheerful image of a coedna. Published in 1903, this novel features in choosing vocabulary and using sentences. This report aims to explore the fiction translation in terms of vocabulary and sentence, and finally presents a vivid image of Patty to readers of the target language, just like the image got by readers of the source language.Based on Nida’s translation theory, this report talks about the fiction translation from When Patty Went to College. Chapter one gives an introduction of the author, Jean Webster, her works and the selected novel. Chapter two focus on the development of the concept of "equivalence" and some well-known scholars’views towards equivalence. Also, great emphasis has been put on Nida’s translation theory, such as formal equivalence, dynamic equivalence and functional equivalence, and its significance in application of translation of fiction. Chapter three analyzes how to achieve the equivalence in words translation and sentences translation according to the examples from When Patty Went to College based on functional equivalence theory. Meanwhile, this part lists the corresponding translation methods which used in translating these sentences. Chapter four summarizes the problems in translating this novel, and the methods in solving these problems. What’s more, this part talks about the features of the words translation and sentences translation in this fiction in order to give a better reference in the future.