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英语商务函电翻译的用词技巧

郑州电子信息职业技术学院

毕业论文

课题名称：

英语商务函电翻译的用词技巧

作者：

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系别：

工商管理系

专业：

商务英语

指导教师：

2015年4月22日

DictionofEnglishbusinesscorrespondencetranslation

Abstract

BusinessEnglishcorrespondenceisinthebusinessenvironment,cross-culturalbehaviorbycorrespondencewithclientswithdifferentculturalbackgroundstocommunicate.BusinessEnglishcorrespondencehasitsparticularityinstyleandstyle,itstranslationandtranslationofordinarydifferent,dynamicequivalencetranslationtheoryemphasizestranslationequivalenceofNida,ratherthanformalequivalence,whichfoundthetheoreticalbasisforbusinessEnglishtranslation,eliminatingculturalbarrierssoastoachievesmooth,theuseofcorrespondencetothepurposeofcommunication.

Keywords:

BusinessEnglish;characteristics;translation

摘要

商务英语函电是一种在商务环境下，利用函电与具有不同文化背景的客户进行交流的跨文化行为。

商务英语函电在文体和语体方面有其特殊性，其翻译也与普通的翻译规律有所不同，奈达的动态等值翻译理论强调翻译效果对等，而非形式上的对等，这为商务英语函电翻译找到了理论根据，从而达到消除文化障碍，顺利利用函电进行交际的目的。

关键词：

商务英语；特点；翻译

Content

Chapter1Introduction

BusinessEnglishcorrespondenceisoneofthemainwaysofforeignexchangebusiness.Itisaprocessofencodingandcorrespondencerecipientdecoding.Successfulencodinganddecodingprocessistheuseofcorrespondencecommunicationprocess.Butduetothedifferentculturalbackground,communicativepartieswithdifferentsocialbackground,waysofthinkingandcommunicationinadifferentway,misunderstandingcanhardlybeavoided,butatthesametime,communicationisadynamicprocess,system.Therefore,revealandgraspthecharacteristicsofbusinessEnglishcorrespondenceandtranslationskills,toraisethelevelofbusiness,todevelopstudents'interculturalcommunicativecompetence,successfultradingisveryimportant.BasedontheanalysisofbusinessEnglishcorrespondence,dynamicequivalenceofNida'sresearchconceptanditsapplicationinBusinessEnglishcorrespondence.

Chapter2ThefeaturesofbusinessEnglishcorrespondence

Businesscorrespondenceisdifferentfromthecommoncommunicationmeans,withdistinctcharacteristics,accordingtothetraditionalviewfollowsevenprinciples（respectivelyisconsiderate,complete,accurate,specific,concise,clear,polite）,itspurposeistomaintainagoodbusinessrelationship,communicateeffectivelyandcarryoutnormalbusiness.Itscoreistheefficiency,thespecificperformanceofeconomicefficiencyandsimplicitytothe.Thetwoisthefundamentaleconomicandexpressclearly,efficiencyisthegoal,thecontentisthecarrier,thetwocomplementeachother,areindispensable.

2.1StylisticFeatures

EmphasizesthedynamicequivalenceofNida'stheoryofdiscoursestructureshouldbeconsidered:

processintegrationininformationreorganization,especiallyinstyle.Hiswritingstyleisdividedinto5categories,professionalstyle,formalstyle,informalstyle,casualstyle,intimatestyle.Accordingtohisclassification,businesscorrespondencerelatingtotheimportandexportbusiness,andcustoms,transportation,banking,legalandotherprofessionalknowledgearecloselyrelated,canbeattributedtotheprofessionalstyleorformalstyle.

2.2languagefeatures

Thethreeprinciple"businesscorrespondencewhichisaccurate,concise,clear"arethelanguagerequirements,"considerate,polite"isfortheattitudeandperspectiverequirements."Integrity"istherequirementsontheformat,and"specific"istheoverallrequirementsofthewholelettercorrespondencecontent,isrequiredtoavoidlargebutimpracticalwords,cannotdeviatefromthecentertotheexpressionofcontent.Businesscorrespondenceisnotonlyrelatestotheuniqueprofessionalbackground,butalsorelatestotheactualbusinessskills,itslanguagefeaturescanbesummarizedintotwo:

businesscorrespondenceinvolvescoveringtrade,finance,foreignexchange,customs,commodityinspectionandotherfields,showingcharacteristicsofvariousindustries,therefore,thelanguagewashighlyselective;businesspeople'smodeofthinkingofconcrete,careful,payattentiontothelanguageexpressiondiscretion.Embodiedintheexpressiontosaywithoutmincingwords,conciseandlively,lightinthemodification.Useofwords,grammar,sentencestructurerigorousspecificationaregenerallyfixedorder.Discoursecoherence,logicality.

2.3FeaturesofTranslation

Thetranslationofbusinesscorrespondenceistheemphasison"practicaleffects",itsmainfunctionistotransfertheeconomicinformationisaccurate,notinordertoachieveaestheticeffectsandadmiretheeffect;accordingtodifferentpurposes,differentmethodsofdealingwithdifferentcontent;morestylized,contentisnotallowedtomakemistakes.Therefore,thetranslatorhandneedstoknow,familiarwiththejargon,thetermprofessional,translation,meaningfaithfulandpreciseterms;ontheotherhand,tousethelanguageasmuchaspossible,therelevantinformationismoreconciseandaccurateexpression.BecauseofthetranslationandapplicationofEnglishbusinesscorrespondencerelates,theChineselanguage,andcorrespondencehasuniqueaspectsofthelanguage,grammar,sentencestructure,andthedifferencesbetweenChineseandWesternculture,whichdecidedinthebusinesscorrespondencetranslationisnotabsolutebutrelativeandequivalence,dynamicequivalence.Therefore,thedynamicequivalencetheoryplaysanimportantroleinthetranslationofbusinesscorrespondence.

Chapter3Nida'sconceptofdynamicequivalencetranslation

AmericanlinguistandtranslatorEugeneA.Nida?

Dr.（Dr.EugeneA.Nida）dynamicequivalencetheory（DynamicEquivalence）istheultimategoalofmanydomesticscholarsjudgethequalitystandardsfortranslationandtranslationpursuit.In1964hepublished"thescienceoftranslationof"inputforward"dynamicequivalence"inthetranslationcriteria,pointsoutthat"therelationshipbetweentherecipientandtranslationinformation,shouldbetherelationshipbetweentheoriginalreceptorsandthemessageisbasicallythesame".Thetheoryoftranslationequivalenceof"equivalence",whichisthetargetlanguage（Targetlanguage）andthetargetlanguage（Sourcelanguage）equaltothevalue,maketheeffectandroleoftheauthorthroughhisworkswanttoachieveinthereader,sothattheTLreadersintranslationcanbeobtainedbyreadingthearticle,roughlythesameasthetheoriginalreadersfeel.Nidaemphasizesisakindof"dynamicequivalence",emphasizingthedynamiclanguageinformationinthecommunicationinthetransformationprocessofpeer,ratherthansimple,static,formalequivalence.Thisisthe"mainprincipleofdynamicequivalenceintranslation.".

Chapter4ApplicationofdynamicequivalenceinBusinessEnglishtranslation.

Businesscorrespondencewiththeword,sentencestructureanddiscoursestructureisdifferentfromtheotherstylesofsignificantcharacteristics.Intranslation,shouldbeatthediscretionoftheoriginaltheoryofdynamicequivalenttranslation,reproductionoftheoriginalword,sentencestyle,maketheaudienceandtheaudiencetoreachthesameunderstanding.Correspondenceisontheparticularityoflanguageandhowtousethedynamicequivalencetranslationtheory.

4.1words

Wordchoiceandnotdeliberatelypursuerhetoric,andasfaraspossibletochooseprofessionalnormal,solemnwordsorstrong.Intranslation,shouldbeproperlyhandledaccordingtothefeaturesofEnglishandChinesewords,intwolanguages,notnecessarytorepeatthetranslationequivalenceofwords,andshouldadoptdynamicequivalence,followingthecustomarytranslation,translationofjargonjargon,thetermtranslationofterminologyequivalencemethod.

Suchas:

gentlemenDearSIRSnottranslated"Dearletter"translation"（deacon）Sir"or"pathSIRS",andfirmsinthe"&"symbolisgenerallynottranslated.SuchastheNipponTelegraph&Telephonetranslatedas"NipponTelegraphandtelephone";pleasedon'thesitateto...Translatedas"asfarascanbe...,please..."Etc..

Inaddition,businesscorrespondenceinthewordsofrepetitionandellipsisphenomenonisrelativelycommon.Whensomeofthekeywordsoftenusedwhenthephenomenonofsynonyms.Suchas:

Thepackingandwrappingexpensesshouldbebornebythebuyer.packagefeeshallbebornebythebuyer.Packingandwrappingsynonymoussentence,meaning"packaging",repeatedlyusedintheoriginal,toensurethatthetermsarenotmisinterpreted.However,accordingtothedynamicequivalencetranslationtheoryonlytranslatedinto"packaging"thewordcanbe.

Again,wordsmustbeaccurate,payattentiontopolysemy.SuchastheTheproductwillfindagoodmarketinNewYork."thisproductinNewYorkwillhaveaverygoodsales".ChinesetoyproductsareverypopularinEurope.WewouldliketoworkwithyoutomarkettheminCanada."ChinesetoyproductsareverypopularinEurope,wewouldliketoworkwithyouintheCanadiansales".Fromtheabovetwocases,marketbothmarkets,sales,andmarketing,saleofitaly.AccordingtothetranslationKamishitaFumitadamiaccuratelytranslatetheoriginaltext,carefullytoavoidmisunderstanding.

4.2Thesentence

Thesentenceisfixed.Toexpressclearly,businessEnglishcorrespondencehasformedafixedformulainpractice:

businesscorrespondencefirstthing,commonformulais:

Thankyouforyourletterof;weareinreceiptofyourletterof.SuchastheWethankyouforyourletterof18thFebruaryandconfirmourcableoftoday'sdate,whichreadsasfollows.（inreplytoyourletterofFebruary18thandconfirmourtodayissuedatelegram,whichread）.Theuseofequivalencetranslation,translatedinto"XXhavereceivedyourletterinreply,grateful,asfollows".

Attheendofthesentenc