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1、Unit1generaldescriptionofliteraturereadingandtranslation1.DefinitionofLiteratureLiteratureisageneraltermforprofessionalwritingsintheformofbooks,papers,andotherdocumentations.Asanimportantmeansforpreservingknowledge,literatureshavebecomepreciousresourcesortreasuresforthemankind,whichhavegrea
2、tlycontributedtothesocialprogressofthehumanrace.2.ClassificationofLiterature1)Textbooks(课本)akindofprofessionalwriting(一种专业的写作)2)Monographs(专著)variousviewpointsanddiscussions3)Papers(论文)thetheoreticalanalysisandexperimentaldescriptiontitle,author,affiliation,abstract,keywords,introduction,th
3、eoreticalanalysisand/orexperimentaldescription,resultsanddiscussionorconclusion,acknowledgments,references4)Encyclopedias(百科全书)everybranchofknowledge5)Periodicals(期刊)aseriesofpublications6)SpecialDocumentation(特殊文档)alltheprintedmaterials3.LinguisticFeaturesofScientificLiteraturestylisticall
4、y(文体上)scientificliteratureisakindofformwriting;syntactically(结构上)scientificliteraturehasrigorousgrammaticalstructuresandinmostcasesisratherunitary;Morphologically(语法上)scientificliteraureisfeaturedbyhighspecialization,theuseoftechnicaltermsandjargons,unambiguousimplicationandthefixedsenseoft
5、hewordPrinciplesorCriteriaofTranslationWheneverprinciplesorcriteriaoftranslationareunderdiscussioninChina,YanFu’sthree-characterguide”-----xin,da,ya,namely,faithfulness(信),expressiveness(达),andelegance(雅).Thesethreeprinciplehasalwaysbeenregardedasaplumb-lineformeasuringtheprofessionallevelo
6、ftranslationandagoalfortranslatorstostriveafter.However,intheapplicationofthisprinciple,peoplecometofindsomeunsatisfactoryaspectsofthethree-characterguideandhaveputforewordavarietyofnewstandardsorcriteriaoftranslation.Despiteavarietyofopinions,twocriteriaarealmostunanimouslyacceptedbyall,na
7、mely,thecriterionoffaithfulness/accuracy(忠实/准确)andthatofsmoothness(流畅).Wemayalsotakethesetwocriteriaastheprinciplescientificliteraturetranslation.Byfaithful/accuracy,wemeantobefaithfulnotonlytotheoriginalcontents,totheoriginalmeaningandviews,butalsotothe