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1、Vol.4,No.7AsianSocialScienceBasicApproachestoImproveTranslationQualityBetweenEnglishandChineseSanningHeSchoolofLanguagesandCuturesNanjingUniversityofInformationScience&Technology219NingliuRoad,Nanjing210044,ChinaTel:86-25-5873-1361E-mail:hsn338@163.comTheresearchisfinan
2、cedbytheJiangsuProvincialResearchprogram“TranslationclassificationsandStudyofTranslationQualityAssessment”(No.SJD740013)AbstractTranslationqualityassessment,withwhichbothtranslationtheoryandpracticeareconcerned,hasbeendiscussedandstressed.Translationqualityimprovementsh
3、ouldalsobereviewedbeforeassessingandcriticizingatranslationversion.Itisveryimportantforthebeginnerstohavethetextualawareness,toconsidertheintra-lingual,theextra-lingualandthetransculturalaspectssoastoimprovetranslationqualityintheprocessoftranslating.Theawarenessdevelop
4、mentandpracticeshouldbeemphasizedon.Thispaperattemptstoexploreseveralwaysofimprovingtranslationquality,whichemphasizetranslationaccuracy,qualityofwritingandvalueofthetext.Translationaccuracyisthebaseofitsqualityimprovement,qualityofwritingisthekeytotranslationimprovemen
5、t,andthevalueoftextistheessenceoftranslationimprovement.Keywords:Translations,Improvement,Approaches,Quality1.IntroductionMyChinesestudentsofEnglishtranslationhavefrequentlyaskedmehowweassesstranslationqualityaftertheyhavefinishedtheirtranslationassignments.Franklyspeak
6、ing,Ihavetaughttranslation,asEnglishtoChinese,orChinesetoEnglish,formanyyears,butIhavenottranslatedmanyEtoCandCtoEtexts,althoughItranslatealltheexamplesIuseinclass.Mystudentsaskmehowweassessatranslation.Ithink,asamatteroffact,theemphasisthatbothtranslationtheoryandpract
7、icelayisonthetranslationquality,whichisoneofthemostimportantaspectsinpracticaltranslation.ThispapertriestoexploresomeapproachesforthebeginnerstoimprovetheirtranslationqualitybetweenEnglishandChinese.Whetherornotatranslationisgoodhasbeenapriority.Butdifferentapproachesde
8、finea‘good’translationdifferently,dependingonthepurposeoftheassessment,andonthetheoreticalframeworkwhichthepeo