A Report On E-C Translation Of Home Is A Roof Over A Pig

Home Is a Roof Over a Pig is a book by American author Aminta Arrington,which recounts the author’s journey to China and the insights she gained from learning Chinese.The title of the book is a deconstruction of the Chinese character for "home",which is also the beginning of the author’s longing for China and the Chinese language,and the charm of the hieroglyphs that drew the author’s family to move to live in Tai’an.The original text is detailed and vivid,combining narrative and reasoning,showing not only the richness of the scenes,but also delving into the deeper features of both pictographs and epigraphs.In the English-Chinese translation process,the translator finds that many of the lexical phrases have unique meanings,and it is worth discussing the careful balance between recreating a Chinese-inspired life scene and preserving the cultural perspective of the original author.The original text involves a lot of harmonic-related content when exploring Chinese features,and the reasoning section is logical and clear,with many proses,neat sentences and a unique style.The translator needs to try to restore the narrative and reasoning style of the original text while accurately conveying its message,so that the readability of the text is not compromised.Under the guidance of the Linguistic Adaptation Theory,this report analyzes the translation on three levels:rhetoric,cross-culture and style.The translator mainly adopts translation methods such as naturalization,addition,paraphrasing,elaboration,zero-translation and the addition of footnotes according to the context to improve the translation,in an attempt to achieve the effect of adapting to the Chinese diction,accurately conveying the spirit of the original text and ensuring the readability of the translation.