5. Qualities of A Good Translator

1)  Mastery of source language and target language(including vocabulary and grammar).

Ex 1. The die is cast.

   【Version】木已成舟。

Ex 2. He is a wet blanket.

   【V】他是个令人扫兴的人。

Ex 3. You can’t be too careful.

   【V】你再怎么仔细也不为过。

2) Broad knowledge (A translator should know everything of something and something of everything.) (Esp. culture & culture differences)

Ex 1. Big Apple：纽约

            Milky way：银河

            Cancer stick：香烟

3) Command of commonly-used translation techniques 

such as conversion（词性转换法）, amplification（增译法）, omission（省译法）,

division（拆分法/切分法）and so on.

  Ex1. Talking with his son, the old man was the forgiver of the young man’s past wrong doings.

  【V】老人同儿子交谈的时候，原谅了年轻人以前所做的错事.

          (词性转化法：forgiver 名词→原谅（动词）

 Ex2. The Chinese seemed justifiably proud of their economic achievement.

   【V】中国人似乎为他们在经济上取得的成就而自豪，这是合乎情理的。

      (justifiably----拆分出来成了一个句子）

4) Sense of responsibility