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Accuracy and Readability: On the Translation of “Thick Translation”
ZHENG Yaying, JIANG Cheng
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2022.01.004
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
The theory of “thick translation” is of great significance to translation research, translation practice, and translation teaching. However, to date, the chaotic phenomenon of “thick translation” still exists. In this paper, the four most representative translations of the term begin with a view of the historical information of the source language and the Chinese definitions of the translations in dictionaries, followed by technical terms translation, namely, accuracy and readability, then analyzes and discusses the four translations and suggests that the appropriate translation is “深度翻译”.
technical term translation, “thick translation”, accuracy, readability
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