The E-C Translation Report On Days Of Gold(Chapters One To Two)

This translation practice report translates American writer Jude Deveraux's novel Days of Gold(Chapters One to Two).Deveraux's works are not only humorous and adventurous but also relevant to the historical and cultural backgrounds of Britain and America.The reason for choosing the Days of Gold as the text of this translation practice is that the novel has not been translated into Chinese so far.Through this translation practice,the author of this report further experiences characteristics and difficulties of the literal translation,discusses translation difficulties and translation strategies and summarizes the experience of this translation practice.The report author practises relatively practical translation methods and aims to introduce this English classic novel and its exoticism,history and culture of Britain and America.This practice report in line with the standpoints of word,phrase and sentence,states the translation difficulties met in the process of this translation practice,for example,translation of polysemy words,translation of phrases,differences in sentence structures between English and Chinese and translation of long sentences;through the analysis of a number of concrete cases,the report illuminates the corresponding translation methods directing at translation difficulties,including choice of words'meaning,phrase unpacking,conversion,following the original syntactic order,division and invert order.This practice report shows following three points:(1)The translator needs to have a comprehensive understanding of the target language culture of different countries and areas mentioned in the original work and enrich knowledge.(2)The translator should establish serious attitude and select appropriate translation strategies.(3)The translator should enhance basic language knowledge of English and Chinese,learn further professional skills and continuously improve self translation ability in future translation practice.