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A Study of the Functional Equivalence of the Lyell's Translation of Lu Xun's "New Year's Sacrifice"

Author(s)

LI Qifan, GAO Wencheng

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2023.06.008

Affiliation(s)

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

ABSTRACT

In the long development process of translation science, Nida's functional equivalence translation theory, as the core of its translation stage, is one of the very important theories in the development process of translation science. As a translation theory that was introduced earlier, domestic scholars have also done a lot of research on functional equivalence theory. In this paper, the Lyell's translation of Mr. Lu Xun's "New Year's Sacrifice" is studied from three aspects: words, sentences, and chapters. Among them, it can be found that the Lyell's translation can not only achieve the functional equivalence between the translation and the original text, but also make the translation better. And the translation can be said to be a very good model of the theory of functional equivalence in translation practice.

KEYWORDS

Luxun, functional equivalence, naturalization, dissimilation

Cite this paper

US-China Foreign Language, June 2023, Vol. 21, No. 6, 249-253 doi:10.17265/1539-8080/2023.06.008

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