• faithfulness,
• expressiveness,
• elegance.
• In 1791, a British theorist Alexander Fraser Tytler wrote a book entitled “Essays on the Principles of Translation” on which he proposed three principles for translation:
翻译概论
Teaching Contents:
• 1. Definition • 2. Nature • 3. Scope of translation • 4. Principles/Criteria of Translation • 5. Processes of Translation
The Tower of Babel
2. Principles/Criteria of Translation
• In 1791, a British theorist Alexander Fraser Tytler wrote a book entitled “Essays on the Principles of Translation” on which he proposed three principles for translation:
• 3) The translation should have all the ease of the original composition.
• In fact, these principles coincide with the criteria proposed by a famous Chinese translator Yanfu, which are