C-E Translation: Theory and Practice
Course Code: 63011000
Course Title：C-E Translation: Theory and Practice
Credit Value：3 Course Schedule：10th Term，3 hrs/week，48 hrs in total
Target Students：4th-year undergraduates majoring in English
Course Type：Main Compulsory Course for English majors
Instructor in Charge：Zhao Wei, Lecturer, PHD
Course Description：
This course is designed to develop the students’ ability to translate Chinese texts into English. Class lectures introduce to the students linguistic features of different text types, compare and analyzes various methods of translating different text types and enable the students to grasp basic principles, techniques and methods of Chinese-English translation. After taking the course, the students are supposed to familiarize themselves with major text types in terms of diction, syntax and rhetorical features so as to translate them with accuracy and smoothness. Ideally, they are expected to translate at the speed of 250-300 words per hour.
Evaluation：Written Exam
Textbook：
《实用翻译教程》. 冯庆华. 上海：上海外语教育出版社，2002.
Reference Books：
[1]《汉英语篇翻译》. 居祖纯,北京：清华大学出版社, 1998.
[2]《英汉汉英段落翻译与实践》. 蔡基刚.上海：复旦大学出版社，2001.
[3]《汉英翻译技巧》. 单其昌.北京：外语教学与研究出版社，1990.
[4]《汉译英难点解析500例》. 汪福祥.北京：外文出版社，1998.
[5]《汉英翻译基础》. 陈宏薇.上海：上海外语教育出版社，1998.