A Comparative Study on the Two Chinese Versions of The Apple Tree by John Galsworthy

• 作者: JIAO Jing
• 来源期刊: 文学与艺术研究:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: CORPUS The APPLE TREE COMPARATIVE study WORDSMITH ICTCLAS
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（5）
• 页码范围: 473-478
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: I

摘要

The author establishes parallel corpus of The Apple Tree by John Galsworthy and two translated Chinese versions by Huang Zixiang and Dong Hengxun.Wordsmith and ICTCLAS are applied to make a quantitative study on the linguistic features of the source and the target language.A comparative study is made on the translation skills and styles of the two Chinese versions.Translation samples are analyzed and appreciated.It is concluded that the form and the literal meaning of the source language is retained more in Huang’s version while the implied meaning is conveyed more in Dong’s version,with more standard,fluent,and natural Chinese and more flexible sentence structures.The socio-cultural contexts of the two translators are also considered in analyzing their styles and translation choices.