Unit One 1
Text A Question of Degree 1
Further Reading College Pressures 15
Translating Skills Translation:General Introduction 27
Unit Two 36
Text The Middle Class 36
Further Reading The Class Significance of Language 53
Translating Skills Diction:A Basic Training 69
Unit Three 81
Text How We Listen to Music 81
Further Reading From Composer to Interpreter to Listener 98
Translating Skills Conversion and Inversion 108
Unit Four 118
Text Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem 118
Further Reading Just Do What the Pilot Tells You 135
Translating Skills Amplification,Omission and Repetition 143
Unit Five 159
Text Untruth and Consequences 159
Further Reading The Ways We Lie 178
Translating Skills Negation,Division and Condensation 195
Unit Six 208
Text Escape and Interpretation 208
Further Reading To Read Fiction 224
Translating Skills Ways to Deal with Passives and Culture-Specific Rhetorical Figures(1) 233
Unit Seven 242
Text Fashion and Status 242
Further Reading Civilian Uniformities 259
Translating Skills Ways to Deal with Passives and Culture-Specific Rhetorical Figures(2)(continued) 269
Unit Eight 282
Text Can Ethics Be Taught 282
Further Reading The Insufficiency of Honesty 299
Translating Skills Approaches to the Translation of Long Sentences and Idioms(1) 309
Unit Nine 324
Text The Lost Generation 324
Further Reading Why It's Called the"Me"Generation 345
Translating Skills Approaches to the Translation of Long Sentences and Idioms(2)(continued) 354
Unit Ten 364
Text Women and the Myth of Consumerism 364
Further Reading Portrayal of Women in Advertising 382
Translating Skills Styles of Translation 393
