1、专 业：英语班级（届）：2009届3班二一三年四月二十二On the Translation of Chinese and English News Headlines By Wang Qun Supervisor Prof. Yang Lihua A Thesis Submitted to the Foreign Languages School In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Bachelor of Arts At Hebei Normal University April 22,2013Conten
2、tsAbstract （English）.iiAbstract （Chinese）. iiiIntroduction.1Chapter 1 Brief Introduction of English News Headlines.31.1 Definition of English News Headlines.31.2 Functions of English News Headlines.41.3 Features of English News Headlines.6Chapter 2 Comparison Between Chinese and English News Headlin
3、es.10 2.1 Differences between Chinese and English News Headlines.10 2.2 Similarities between Chinese and English News headlines.15Chapter 3 Translation of English News Headlines.16 3.1 Difficulties of English News Headlines Translation.163.2 A Brief Review on Translation Criteria.17 3.3 Criteria of
4、English News Headlines Translation.183.4 Strategies and Tactics of English News Headlines Translation.20Conclusion.25Bibliography.26AbstractWith deepening of the reform and opening up policy and entry into the WTO ，the Chinese are eager to know the world. A large number of information is transmitted
5、 by news media especially news reports. The essential part of news report is headline. Sometimes people dont have enough time to read the whole news from the beginning to the end, most readers would like to know as much as they can in the shortest time. Therefore , it can be concluded that the headl
6、ine plays a very important role on news reporting, and we must pay more attention to the translation of news headline.This paper mainly introduces some translating skills according to the features of English news headlines. There are three parts in this paper. In chapter one, it introduces the defin
7、ition, function, classification and features of English news headline. In chapter two, it introduces the differences and similarities between English and Chinese news headlines. The problems appeared in English news headline translation are introduced in the last chapter. In the end of this paper, i
8、t has a conclusion of the content . To sum up, this paper hopes to find a appropriate way of English news headline translation by discussing of the features, functions and the criteria of English news headline translation.Key words: journalistic English; headlines; features; criteria; translation ta
9、ctics摘 要随着改革开放的进一步深化以及中国加入世界贸易组织，中国与西方国家的交流与联系也越来越频繁。中国需要更多的了解世界，世界也需要更好的了解中国。其中有大量的信息必须通过新闻媒体进行传递，这种信息传递的最重要的一条途径是阅读英语新闻报道。因此英语新闻报道的翻译理所当然地成为这种相互交流的重要途径。而标题是新闻报道最关键的部分，因为大多数读者都希望能在最短的时间内获取最多的信息。由此可见标题在新闻报道中具有独特的地位，因此我们应该更加重视新闻标题的翻译。本论文共分三章。本文结合英语新闻标题的主要特点，通过具体的例子，介绍了英语新闻标题的翻译技巧。第一章对英语新闻标题做了基本的介绍,让读
10、者对英语新闻标题有了初步的了解和认识。第二章主要介绍中英新闻标题的相同点和不同点，并通过实例加以论证。最后一章，也是最重要的一章，首先介绍了在英语新闻标题翻译中存在的问题。最后针对这些问题介绍了英语新闻标题翻译所应遵循的原则。在最后对本文所提到的英语新闻标题的翻译原则和技巧以及其它的内容做了总结。总之，本文试通过对英语新闻标题特征，功能以及翻译原则的探讨，希望能找到一条对新闻英语包括英语标题翻译具有特定翻译规则的途径。关键词：新闻英语；标题；特征；翻译原则；翻译技巧及策略IntroductionNowadays, news is everywhere in our daily life. Th
11、e news made us understand what is going on around us. Reading newspapers has become one of these things, which people must do in daily life. All this tells us that newspaper has become more and more important. As an indispensable part of news, headline plays an important role. It is a guide to news
12、content. At the same time they can attract he attention of the readers, so the quality of headlines is very important to news. And news translation, especially its headlines, is a big problem. It is difficult for a translator to translate news headlines properly. As is often seen in newspapers or ma
13、gazines, some translated versions are too awkward to read. Some are so confusing that the readers do not know what the news is talking about and can not understand at all. So the quality of the translated versions is very important. In fact, there have been many books or articles on news translation
14、. Besides, a number of translators, at home and abroad, have already changed their attention to the study of news translation and achieved some results. Some famous translation scholars in this field such as Liu Miqing（刘宓庆），Xu Mingwu（许明武）, Chen Hongwei（陈宏薇）, Chen Mingyao（陈明瑶）, Zhang jian（张健） and Liu
15、 Qizhong（刘其中）have made their contribution to the translation of English news headlines. Liu Miqing holds that news translation should be accurate and translators should rigorously control their work. Chen Hongwei argues that translators should be flexible in the translation because there is no fixed
16、 structural mode for news reports. Chen Mingyao suggests that adaptation should be used to translate soft news. Zhang jian concludes that there are three steps in news translation, i.e. to precisely understand news reports, to properly handle original characteristics and to consistently improve news
17、 readability. There are other translation scholars making their efforts to translate news or news headlines through comparing linguistic and cultural characteristics in the East and the West.Today more and more translators have begun to change their attention to the translation of English news headl
18、ines, which indicates that news headlines translation becomes more and more important. “But until now, there has been no published textbooks dealing with news translation in China. It is rather rare to find related articles regarding news translation in academic journals.”（刘其中，2004：3） This paper wil
19、l study the translation of English news headlines, which will make a great contribution to information transmission and exchange. It mainly studies the features and tactics of English news headlines translation, which will help the readers fully understand the English news headlines. Chapter 1 Brief
20、 Introduction of English News HeadlinesNow in the information age, news begins to play a more and more important role in our daily life. It provides people with the latest news in the world. A piece of news is usually composed of a headline, a lead and a body. Especially, the headline is the eye of
21、a piece of news. Because people do not have enough time to read through the whole news, they just look through the headline of the news to guess what it is talking about. So it is important to understand the definition, function and feature of a news headline.1.1 Definition of English News Headlines
22、When reading a newspaper, one should first read a headline. As an indispensable part of news, headlines are compared to the eyes of news. Many journalists, scholars and books have defined the concept of a news headline. So this paper has collected some different versions of definition of a news head
23、line.“A news headline is caption printed at the top of a page or article in a newspaper, usually in large bold letters and often summarizing the content that follows it.”（Encarta Dictionary）“A head of a newspaper story or article，usually printed in large type and devised to summarize the story or ar
24、ticle that follows.”（Longman Dictionary of the English Language）“A head of a newspaper story or article usually printed in large type and devised to summarize, give essential information about, or let readers in reading the story or article that follows.”（Webster Third New International Dictionary）“
25、报纸新闻标题用来概括，评价新闻的内容，帮助读者阅读和理解新闻。”（辞海）“A headline is any line or collection of lines of display type that precedes a story to introduce or summarize it.”（Westly, 1972:141）From the above, we can know that news headlines are defined according to their roles, functions and features. So in order to fully
26、understand the definition of a news headline, we have to first know the functions and features of a news headline.1.2 Functions of English News HeadlinesWe should pay attention to the functions of English news headlines. It is important for us to understand the news headlines. Generally speaking, En
27、glish news headlines have the following functions: summarizing the news, attracting readers, attention, commenting on the news and dressing up the page.1.2.1 Summarizing the newsNaturally, people buy newspapers in order to get the information that they want to know, but there are kinds of different
28、newspapers published every day. Even a newspaper has several pages with each containing many items. Most of people do not have enough time to read through the whole newspaper. Therefore, many readers have formed the habit of scanning news headlines, which makes possible rapid news comprehension. Thu
29、s the first and most important purpose of headlines is to let the readers understand the news quickly.Readers can grasp the essentials of news. Good news headlines should contain such elements of a news event such as the time, place, cause, result and background.1.2.2 Attracting readers attentionAs the beginning of the
