Howard Goldblatt

1、LifeWorksTranslation strategyEncountering ChineseBeginning his career of translationMo YanFalling in “love” with Xiao HongLife Bad studentUnemploymentCommunication officer in the Pacific FleetFear of dying youngNational Taiwan Normal UniversityEncountering ChineseBeginning his career of translationM

2、o YanFalling in “love” with Xiao HongHoward Goldblatt in Guangzhou Yinhe Cemetery Works The Execution of Mayor Yin The Field of Life and DeathTales of Hulan RiverMarket Street: A Chinese Woman in HarbinTurbulenceRed SorghumThe Gallic BallarsThe Republic of WineYoull Do Anything for A LaughBig Breast

3、s and Wide HipsPlaying for ThrillsPlease Dont Call Me Human Daughter of the RiverWolf Totem The Redemption Boat 丰乳肥臀天堂蒜薹之歌LifeWorksTranslation strategy“I believe first of all that, like an editor, the translators primary obligation is to the reader, not the writerI do think that we need to produce s

4、omething that can be readily accepted by an American readership”(Lingenfelter, 2007). domestication【原文】“我说上官家的，”孙大姑用美丽的冰冷目光扫了吕氏一眼，又横扫了院中的男人们，不满地说 （莫言，2003:32） 【译文】“My dear lady Shangguan,” Aunty Sun said with obvious displeasure, her gaze covering Shangguan Lv with icy beauty, then shifting to the m

5、en in the yard(Goldblatt,2004:43) 【原文】他们都用双手拉着马缰，踩着马镫的腿伸得笔直，八字形劈开。（莫言，2003:24） 【译文】The Japanese riders, holding the reins with both hands, bobbed up and down, their legs in a rigid inverted V. (Goldblatt,2004:33) 【原文】戴着高筒礼帽、留着两撇尖儿上翘八字胡的车夫也不是个一般人物（莫言，2003:92） 【译文】in a top hat and sporting a handlebar

6、 mustache, was not your ordinary driver(Goldblatt,2004:160) Examples of Foreignization 【原文】炕 （莫言，2003:3） 【译文】the brick-and-tamped-earth sleeping platform, his kang (Goldblatt,2004:1) 【原文】我家璇儿，非嫁个状元不可的！（莫言，2003:402） 【译文】Our Xuaner will marry a zhuangyuan, top scholar at the Imperial Examination. (Gol

7、dblatt,2004:49) Examples of Foreignization 【原文】上官家的七个女儿来弟、招弟、领弟、想弟、盼弟、念弟、求弟（莫言，2003:13） 【译文】The seven daughters of the Shangguan family-Laidi (Brother Coming), Zhaodi (Brother Hailed), Lingdi (Brother Ushered), Xiangdi (Brother Desired), Pandi (Brother Anticipated), Niandi (Brother Wanted), and Qiud

8、i (Brother “ninety percent of all translation is inadequate and once threshed into a different language, a piece of writing is transformed, changed, not as a measure of the quality of the work. Translation is inadequate, but its all we have if good writing is to have its life extended, spatially and

9、 temporally. Fidelity vs betrayal“ we must thank the Italians for reminding us that every translation is a betrayal”.Creative BetrayalCreative Betrayal Alternation of Subtitles Rearrangement of Sequence Rewriting Big Breasts & Wide Hips: A Novel Big Breasts & Wide Hips: A Novel Garlic Ballads Abridg

10、ement and Deletion Abridgement and Deletion 【原文】有朝一日我碰上他，一定要和他展开一场血腥大辩论，我要驳得他哑口无言噤若寒蝉，然后还要揍他一顿，让这个小子七窍流血鼻青脸肿魂飞魄散一佛出世二佛涅槃!【译文】If I ever meet him, I tell you, hes in for the verbal fight of his life.Abridgement and Deletion 【原文】在这个忧伤而明媚的三月，我从我单薄的青春里打马而过，穿过紫堇，穿过木棉，穿过时隐时现的悲喜和无常。【译文】Its march，Im bitch.“I

11、 believe first of all that, like an editor, the translators primary obligation is to the reader, not the writerI do think that we need to produce something that can be readily accepted by an American readership”(Lingenfelter, 2007). EffectiveForceReader-orientedCommunicative translation【原文】鲁县长和他是连襟，是亲向三分啊（莫言，2003:182） 【 译 文 】 County Head Lu is related to them, which counts for a great deal(Goldblatt,2004:290)Communicative translation【原文】母亲说：“大叔，详情莫问，谢大媒的酒我给您预备好了。” 樊三大爷道：“这可是倒提媒。” （莫言，2003:61） 【译文】“Uncle” Mother