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IntroductionInthischaptertheauthorwouldliketointroducerelevanttheorytobeusedinguidingthewritingofthisthesisandbasicbackgroundofprofessorZhangPeijiandhisworks.1.1TheTheoryofDomesticationStrategyIn1995,Venuti,afamousAmericanscholar,publishedhismonographTheTranslator’sInvisibility:“AHistoryofTranslation”.Hestatedthattranslationcouldneverbecompletelyequaltotheforeigntextthoughthetranslatortryasmuchaspossible,thetranslatorhastomakeachoicebetweenthedomesticatingmethodandtheforeignizationmethod.Thedomesticatingmethodreducestheforeignnessofsourcetext,andfitsthetargetlanguageculturalvalues.Whiletheforeignizationmethodkeepthestrangenessandstayexotic,makereadersfeelabroad(1995:20).“Foreignizingmethod”and“Domesticatingmethod”arerecognizedas“ForeignizationStrategy”and“DomesticationStrategy”lateron.CowieandShuttleworth(1997:44)oncealsostatedintheirdictionarythatDomesticationStrategyisatermthatVenutiappliedtogiveadescriptionoftranslationstrategy,itadoptsastyleoftransparencyandfluencytoachievethegoalofminimizingtheestrangementofthesourcelanguagetextfortargetlanguagereaders.Accordingtoitsgivendefinitions,DomesticationStrategyadoptsatranslatingmethodoftransparentandfluent,andaimstoreducethestrangenessoftheoriginaltext.1.2Mr.ZhangandHisProseTranslationsZhangPeijiisapreeminentacademicianandanexpertintranslation.ZhangPeijiwasbornin1921,inFuzhou,Fujian,China.HemovedtoShanghaiwithhisfamilywhenhewasachild,andspentmostofhischildhoodthere.HegraduatedasaBachelorofArtsin1945inEnglishLanguageandLiteratureDepartmentofSt.John’sUniversityinShanghai.Speakingoftranslation,ProfessorZhanghasmadegreatachievementsinboththeoryandpractice.HecompiledACoursebookinEnglish-ChineseTranslationin1980,whichhasbeenemployedasatextbookintranslationforEnglishmajorsinChinaforaboutthreedecades.Astotranslationpractice,ProfessorZhanghasworkedasatranslatorforabout50years.Histranslationsareverypopularwithalargenumberofreaders.SelectedModernChineseEssaysisthemostrepresentativeworkofhis,makingagreatcontributiontoChina’sculturalexchangewithEnglish-speakingcountries.Itconsistsoffourvolumes,andthreeessaysofthefirstvolumeareselectedforanalysisinthispaper.Theoriginalsofalltheessaysinthisvolumearewrittenbysomewell-knownChinesewriters,tonameafew,MaoDun,HuShi,LuXun,GuoMoruo,YeShengtao,LaoShe,ZhuZiqing,Bajin,LiDazhaoand,Bingxin.Additionally,allproseselectedaremasterworksoftheseoutstandingwritersand,enjoyahighreputationamongChinesereadersofdifferentbackgrounds.LiteratureReviewItisvitalforustoknowtherelevantstudiesaboutDomesticationStrategybeforewestarttoexploreitssignificance.ThischapterintroducestherelevantstudiesaboutDomesticationStrategy.2.1StudiesabroadEugeneNidaisoneoftherepresentativesofthedomesticationschool.Theessenceofhisfamoustranslationtheory,dynamicequivalenceandfunctionalequivalence,istofollowthelanguagehabitandculturemodelofthetargetlanguage.Heholdsthattheessenceoftranslationisthetransformationofform.Nidaputsthemeaningfirst,emphasizingthereader’sresponse,sohisdefinitionofequivalenceisalsomeasuredbythereader’sresponse.AccordingtoNida(1993:18),translationreferstothereproductionofthesourcetextfromthesemanticstothestylisticequivalentsinthetargetlanguage,usingtheclosestandmostnaturalequivalence.Fromasocialandculturalstandpoint,hearguesthattranslationshouldbecenteredonthetargettextandthetargetreaders,andthetranslationshouldbesmoothandnatural.Anythingintheoriginaltextthathindersthereader’sunderstandingshouldbedealtwithtoensurethatthetargetreaderscanusetheleasteffort.Nidareplicateshisviewonvariousoccasionsthat“thetranslationshouldbeessentiallytheclosestnaturalequivalentofsourceinformation”.TennesseeWilliams(2004:32)suggestedinAStreetcarNamedDesire(欲望號(hào)街車),“IfVirgilmustspeakEnglish,thenheshouldbelikenativespeakersofEnglishsay,likethepeopleofthiserathatisappropriate.”Williams’sremarksreflecttheideaofnaturalizationandthepopularizationofthetranslationstrategy.LawrenceVenuti(1995:20),inhisbookTheTranslator’sInvisibility—“AHistoryofTranslation”,referredtothefirstapproachas“foreignization”,whichwasdesignedtoconveytheexoticfeaturesoftheoriginal,whichthereaderreadasiftravelingabroad,everythingisfresh.Anotherapproachwascalled“domestication”.Inshort,DomesticationStrategytriestoconformtothetargetlanguagetranslationnormsandculturalcharacteristics,withoutthetranslationofthe“foreigner”,thereaderwillfeelasintimateastheirmothertongue.2.2DomesticStudyInmodernChinesehistory,freetranslationanddomesticationhasbeenthemainstreamofliterarytranslation.Assignificanttranslators,bothYanFuandLinShupracticeddomesticationintheirtranslations.Chinesemodernprosetranslationbelongstothecategoryofliterarytranslation.WhenitcomestothedomesticationinthetranslationofChineseprose,itisnecessarytostartwiththeapplicationofdomesticationinliterarytranslation.Infact,therehasbeenmuchdiscussionaboutwhetherliterarytranslationisadomesticatedtranslationoraforeignizedtranslation.Manyscholarsandtranslatorsalsoexpressedtheirviewsandmanydifferentopinionswereshared.Inhis2002articleintheChineseTranslation,ProfessorSunZhiliobservesthatChina’sliterarytranslationwillgraduallytransformfromdomesticationtoforeignization.HewrotethatthetranslationofChineseliteratureinthe21stcenturywillfurthertendtoforeignizedtranslation,andthecoreofitistotrytointerprettheheterogeneouselementsoftheoriginal,specifically,istotrytoconveytheoriginalexoticculturalcharacteristics,foreignlanguageforms,aswellastheauthor’sunusualwritingtechniques.Anotherscholar,GuoJianzhong(2009)arguesthatbothdomesticationandforeignizationcanachievetheirrespectivemissionsinthecultureofthetargetlanguage,andthushavetheirownvalueinviewsofdifferentpurposes,texttypes,authorintentionsandreadership.Thisthesistendstoelaboratethatatallevents,DomesticationStrategyisalwaysanimportantguidingprincipleofliterarytranslation.ApplicationofDomesticationStrategyintheSelectedEssaysInthissection,theauthorillustratestheapplicationofdomesticationinZhang’sversionsbyanalyzingtypicalexamplesselectedfromthreetranslatedworks.Theanalysesareconductedatsyntacticlevel,textuallevelandlexicallevel.3.1SignificanceoftheSelectedEssaysInthisthesistheauthorselectedthreetypicalessaystothepositiveinfluenceofapplyingDomesticationStrategyintheprocessofChinese-Englishtranslation.Thefollowingarethemajorcharacteristicsoftheselectedessays,boththeoriginalandtranslatedversions.3.1.1LinguisticFeaturesoftheOriginalTexts“艱難的國運(yùn)與雄健的國民”(NationalCrisisVSHeroicNation),iswrittenbyLiDazhao,apatrioticwriterinChinaduringitsturbulentperiodofhistory.HewrotethisessaytoencourageChinesepeopletodevotethemselvestothegreatcauseofsavingthenation.Inhiswriting,manyfour-characterexpressionsfullofChinesecharacteristicsareemployed,suchas“艱難險(xiǎn)阻”(difficultiesandobstacles),“平原無際”(plainslyingboundless),and“回環(huán)曲折”(teistandturn).Some,whentranslated,wouldbestrangetoEnglishreaderswithoutusingDomesticationStrategy.Meanwhile,reduplicatedwordsarealsopresentedinit,forinstance,“浩浩蕩蕩”(mighty),“高高興興”(cheerfully),“濁流滾滾”(turbidtorrents),whicharealsoinappropriatetodirectlytranslateintoEnglishwithoutDomesticationStrategyfunctioning.ThewriterusesanalogytoillustratesimilaritybetweenamightylongriverandthespiritoftheChinesenation.Theessayhasaclearandrationalstructure,athoroughexplanationofthereasonwhyChinesepeopleshouldbemorepositiveaboutwhattheyarefacing.Thedynamicthelanguagecreatedismagnificentandpowerful,passionatelyexpressedtheideathewritertriedtorevealtohisreaders.“匆匆”(TransientDay)waswrittenbyZhuZiqing,oneofthemostimportantwritersoftheMayFourthMovement.Theessayrevealsthewriter’sgrievanceinsadness,andreflectsthegeneralmoodoftheintellectualyouthduringtheMayFourthMovement.ZhuZiqingusedaseriesofparallelsentencesthataremostlyshort,appeartobelightandsmoothintextuallevel.Theapplicationofreduplicationmakesitslanguagerhythmic.“巷”(TheLane)waswrittenbyKeLing,reflectedthedepressionofthewriter.Alotofculture-loadedwordsareusedtodescribethelanesindifferentareasofChina.Idiomsarealsoappliedfrequently,makingtheprocessoftranslationmorecomplicatedfortranslator.3.1.2LinguisticsFeaturesofTranslatedTexts“艱難的國運(yùn)與雄健的國民”wastranslatedintoNationalCrisisvsHeroicNationbyprofessorZhang.Thetranslatedversionisrationalfromtheperspectiveofthelanguageitself,whichisnotdifficultfortheEnglishreaderstounderstand.Itsufficientlycreatedthedynamicoftransparencyandfluency.ExpressionsoftypicalChinesecharacteristicssuchas“浩浩蕩蕩”(mighty),“一瀉萬里”(surgeforwardwithirresistibleforce),“絕壁斷崖”(steepcliffs)andsoon,theyareallhandledproperlythroughtheuseofDomesticationStrategy.3.2ApplicationofDomesticationStrategyinSelectedEssaysInthissection,theauthorillustratestheapplicationofdomesticationinZhang’sversionsbyanalyzingtypicalexamplesselectedfromthethreetranslatedessays.Theanalysesareconductedatlexicallevel,syntacticlevelandtextuallevel.3.2.1AtLexicalLevelItisacommonacknowledgementthattherearealotofdifferencesbetweenEnglishandChinese.Thesameimplicationisoftendeliveredbycompletelydifferentterms.Forinstance,“白發(fā)”inChineseand“greyhair”inEnglishrefertothesamething.Besides,sometimesdistinctimplicationsaredeliveredbythesamewordorexpression.Anotherexample,“紅”,apositivewordinChinese,meaningred,isoftenconnectedwithluckinessandhappiness,whileinEnglishtheword“red”isoftenconnectedwithbloodandconsideredasunluckyinsomeWesterncultures.Intheprocessoftranslation,thiskindoflexicaldifferenceshouldbetakenintoaccounttoapplyasuitabletranslationstrategy.Atthelexicallevel,theapplicationoftheDomesticationStrategyismainlyreflectedinthetranslationofreduplicationandfour-characterphrasesinChinese,andsometimesinthetranslationofcultural-loadedwords.Observeandanalyzethefollowing.Example1:SourceText:人類在歷史上的生活正如旅行一樣。旅途上的征人所經(jīng)過的地方，有時(shí)是坦蕩平原，有時(shí)是崎嶇險(xiǎn)路。志于旅途的人，走到平坦的地方，因是高高興興的向前走，走到崎嶇的境界，愈是奇趣橫生，覺得在此奇絕壯絕的境界，愈能感到一種冒險(xiǎn)的美趣。(ZhangPeiji,2007:1)TargetText:Thehistoricalcourseofman’slifeisjustlikeajourney.Atraveleronalongjourneypassesthroughnowabroad,levelplain,nowarugged,hazardousroad.Whileadeterminedtravelercheerfullycontinuoushisjourneyuponreachingasafeandsmoothplace,hefindsitstillmorefascinatingtocometoaruggedplace,theenormouslymagnificentspectacleofwhich,hefeels,isbetterabletogenerateinhimawonderfulsensationofadventure.(ZhangPeiji,2007:3)Example1isselectedfromanessaywrittenbyLiDazhaoandtranslatedbyprofessorZhang.Asarevolutionist,LiDazhaowrotethisessaytoencourageChinesepeopletobravelymarchthroughdifficultiesandhardshipsinthecourseofhistory.Therearefivefour-characterexpressionsappliedinoriginaltext:“坦蕩平原”(broad,levelplain),“崎嶇險(xiǎn)路”(rugged,hazardousroad),“高高興興”(cheerfully),“奇趣橫生”(fascinating),“奇絕壯絕”(enormouslymagnificentspectacle).Theyformedastructureofsmoothandfluent,composinganeatandpowerfulsentencefullofstrengthandrhythm.LinguisticsformsofChineselanguageareunique,includingmanyfour-characterphrases,suchasidiomsandnon-fixedphrases,whicharetypicalformsofChineselinguistics.Chineseproseappliestheseexpressionsalot.However,Englishdoesnothavesuchexpressions.Therefore,ProfessorZhangappliedDomesticationStrategytotranslatethesefour-characterphrasesinthiscase.“有時(shí)是坦蕩平原,有時(shí)是崎嶇險(xiǎn)路”isrenderedinto“nowabroad,levelplain,nowarugged,hazardousroad”.“高高興興地往前走”istranslatedinto“cheerfullycontinuoushisjourney”.“愈是奇趣橫生”isrenderedas“findsitstillmorefascinatingto”;“奇絕壯絕的境界”istranslatedinto“theenormouslymagnificentspectacleofwhich”.Aswecanseeitinthetargettext,allthefour-characterexpressionsintheoriginaltextarenotdirectlytranslatedintofour-wordphrases.Theyaretranslatedintoacceptableexpressionsforforeignreaders.AccurateunderstandingofthesephrasesandproficiencyinEnglishgrammararebothvitalforthetranslation,allowingthetranslatortorenderthemintoappropriatephrasesandstructuresfollowingtheruleofEnglishlanguage,explainingtheircoremeaningvividlyandprecisely.ProfessorZhangtranslatedfour-characterphrasesintoEnglishbyusingDomesticationStrategyinalmosteverycase.ThemajorcauseofthefrequencyoftheapplicationofDomesticationStrategyinZhang’sworksisthedistinctivelinguisticsdifferencesbetweenEnglishandChineselanguage.Firstly,Chineselanguagehasadistinctmodeofrepetitiontostresstheimplication.Secondly,thefour-characterphrasesinChineselanguagearedistinctfromEnglishlanguage.ThusnosuchexpressionswouldbeappliedinEnglish.Itisacommonlyacknowledgedthateverythinghasitstwosides.Whileitisausualanduniquemannertousefour-characterexpressionsinChineselanguage,DomesticationStrategydoeshelptoreducethestrangenessanddeliverstheimplicationmoreprecisely,helpingEnglishreaderstohaveaprofoundunderstandingofthetext.However,byreadingdomesticatedversionofawork,theEnglishreaderwouldnotbeenjoyingthecompletebeautyofChineseculturesincesomeofthemarenotawareoffour-characterexpressionsinChineselanguage.Hopefully,duetothewidespreadofChineseculture,therehasbeencountlessEnglish-speakingpeoplelearningbothChinesecultureandlanguage,thereforeChinesecharacteristicsisfamiliartomoreandmoreEnglishreaders.ThetranslationofreduplicatedwordsalsorequirestheapplicationofDomesticationStrategy.ReduplicationisarepresentativeChineseexpression.Itisusedtodescribetherepetitionofmorphemes,words,syllablesandsoon,soastocreateanaestheticsensationtothereaders.Reduplicatedwordshavevarioustypesofmode,suchas“金燦燦”(golden)isABBtype;“高高興興”(cheerfully),isAABBtype;“輕輕地”(gently)isAAtype,“熱鬧熱鬧”(bustling)isABABtype.ReduplicatedwordsusuallyappearinthesemodesinmodernChineseessays.FollowingexamplescanshowushowexactlyprofessorZhangtranslatedreduplicationsintoEnglish.Example2:SourceText:我不禁頭涔涔而淚潸潸了。(ZhangPeiji,2007:55)TargetText:Atthethoughtofthis,sweatoozesfrommyforeheadandtearstrickledownmycheeks.(ZhangPeiji,2007:57)Example3:SourceText:早上我起來的時(shí)候,小屋里射進(jìn)兩三方斜斜的太陽。太陽他有腳啊，輕輕悄悄地挪移了；我也茫茫然跟著旋轉(zhuǎn)。(ZhangPeiji,2007:55)TargetText:WhenIgetupinthemorning,theslantingsuncaststwoorthreesquarishpatchesoflightintomysmallroom.Thesunhasfeettoo,edgingawaysoftlyandstealthily.And,withoutknowingit,Iamalreadycaughtinitsrevolution.(ZhangPeiji,2007:57)Example4:SourceText:我赤裸裸來到這世界，轉(zhuǎn)眼間也將赤裸裸的回去罷？(ZhangPeiji,2007:56)TargetText:Ihavecometothisworldstarknaked,andinthetwinklingofaneye,Iamtogobackasstarknakedasever.(ZhangPeiji,2007:58)Example2,3,and4areselectedfrom“匆匆”(TransientDays),writtenbyZhuZiqingandtranslatedbyprofessorZhang.Originaltextcontainssixreduplicatedwords.Theyarevitalforreaderstounderstandthetext,butEnglishlanguagedoesnothavethesamelinguisticphenomenon,soprofessorZhangrenderedthemintoEnglishbyusingDomesticationStrategy.Inexample2,“頭涔涔”istranslatedinto“sweatoozesfrommyforehead”,“淚潸潸”istranslatedinto“tearstrickledownmycheeks”,thesetwoexpressionshavevividlydescribedtheanxietyrevealedinoriginaltext.Therearethreereduplicatedwordsinexample3,“斜斜的”istranslatedinto“slanting”,“輕輕悄悄地”istranslatedinto“softlyandstealthily”,“茫茫然”isrenderedinto“withoutknowingit”.Thesewordsintheoriginaltextareusedtodescribethesecretmovementofthesun,thepassageofthetimeandtheunawarenessofthewriter.ProfessorZhangtranslatedthembymeansofDomestication,renderedthemintoacceptableexpressionsforEnglishreaders.Hechangedtheformofthembutkeptthecoremeaningofthem,makingEnglishreadershavethesamereactionasChinesereaders.3.2.2AtSyntacticLevelThereisahugedifferencebetweenEnglishsyntaxandChinesesyntax.ThestructureofEnglishsentencefollowsastrictrule.Thesentencehastobecomplete,theformofitisstandardized,althoughsomesentencesarelongandcomplex,buttheformisstillstandardized.SubjectsandverbsareindispensableforanEnglishsentence.Otherpartsofthesentenceareinterspersedamongthem.However,thestructureofChinesesentencesismoreflexible.Itissometimespresentedwithoutsubjectwhilethemeaningisstillcomplete.SubjectsandverbsarenotindispensableforaChinesesentence,whichfocusesonthemainideaandthelogic,butnotnecessarilytheintegrationofthestructureofthesentence.Run-onsentencesarefrequentlyemployedinChineselanguage,thatistosay,onesentencecanhavemanyclauses.Thisdifferenceisthatitmakesthetranslationmorecomplicated,anditiscrucialfortranslatorstohandleitproperly.ThefollowingexamplescanhelpustoseehowDomesticationStrategyisappliedbyprofessorZhangintranslatingsuchsentences.Example5:SourceText:愛逐臭爭(zhēng)利，輜鐵必較的，請(qǐng)到長(zhǎng)街鬧市去；愛輕嘴薄舌，爭(zhēng)是論非的，請(qǐng)到茶館酒樓去；愛鑼鼓鉦鏜，管弦嗷嘈的，請(qǐng)到歌臺(tái)劇院去，愛寧靜淡泊，沉思默想的，深深的小巷在歡迎你！(ZhangPeiji,2007:269)TargetText:Thosewhostriveafterfameandgain,andhaggleovereverypenny,pleasegotothedowntownarea!Thosewhoaresharp-tonguedandquarrelsome,pleasegototheteahouseorrestaurant!Thosewholovedeafeninggongsanddrumsaswellasnoisywindandstringinstruments,pleasegototheoperahouseortheatre!Thosewhoaregiventoprofoundmeditationandaquietlifewithoutworldlydesires,welcometothelane!(ZhangPeiji,2007:272)Example5isselectedfrom“巷”(TheLane),anessaywrittenbyKeLingandtranslatedbyprofessorZhang.Itisatypicalno-subjectsentenceintheoriginaltext.Chinesereaderswouldnotevennoticethereisamissingpartinthissentence,fortheyhavegotusedtoChineselanguage.Soitdoesnotaffectthemwhilereading.ButitwouldbestrangetoEnglishreadersifthereisnosubjectinsentences,sinceEnglishhasastandardsentencestructure.Theomittedsubjectistheimplicit“peoplestriveafterfameandgain”.Thatisthereasonwhy“thosewhostriveafterfameandgain”isaddedasthesubjecttothetranslatedsentence.ThusEnglishreaderscanunderstandtheprecisemeaningofthesentence.Thetranslatorhasachievedthegoalofcommunicationbychangingthestructureoforiginalsentenceduringtheprocessoftranslating.Itisnotdifficulttojudgethatexample5iswelldomesticated.3.2.3AtTextualLevelAccordingtoBeaugrandeandDressier(1981:32),thereareseventextualstandards.Theyarecohesion,coherence,intentionality,acceptability,informativity,situationalityandintertextuality.IntensediscussionhadbeenmadebetweencohesionandcoherenceDifferentopinionshavebeenmadebymanyacademicians.HallidayandHasan(1976:11)introducedthatcohesionreferstobasicconnectionsofmeaningsinthecontentsofthetext.BeaugranderandDressier(1981:7)pointedout,“Coherenceisclearlynotamerefeatureoftexts,butrathertheoutcomeofcognitiveprocessesamongtextusers.”Hoey(1991:12)summedupthedifferencesbetweencohesionandcoherenceasfollows.Wewillassumethatcohesionisapropertyofthetext,andthatcoherenceisafacetofthereader’sevaluationofatext.Inotherwords,cohesionisobjective,capableinprincipleofautomaticrecognition,whilecoherenceissubjectiveandjudgmentsconcerningitmayvaryfromreadertoreader.Inthefollowing,theauthorwillshowhowProfessorZhangappliestheDomesticationStrategyinthetextuallevel,andtomaintainthetextualcohesionandcoherence.Astocohesion,thispartdiscusseshowProfessorZhangrenderedsentencerelationswithconjunctions.Astocoherence,thissectionillustrateshowcoherenceiskeptinthetranslatedexamples.Cohesioninatextisoftencreatedbyfourways:reference,ellipsis,conjunctionandlexicalorganization.Conjunctionswillbemainlydiscussedhere.Conjunctionsareoftenusedtoexpressthesemanticandlogicalrelationsbetweenclauses,sentencesorparagraphs.TheymaybeconsideredasoneofthemostdistinctdifferencesbetweenChineseandEnglish.TextsinChineseinvolvemuchfewerconjunctionsthantextsinEnglish,forChineseisaparataxis-orientedlanguage,whileEnglishishypotaxis-orientedlanguage.SemanticandlogicalrelationsbetweensentencesareimpliedwithinsentencesinChineselanguage,whileitisnecessarytouseconjunctionsbetweenclauses,sentencesorparagraphstoindicatetheminEnglish.Inthefollowingpart,wewillseehowProfessorZhangpreservedcohesionandcoherenceintextsbymeansofcohesivedevices.Example6:SourceText:在逃去如飛的日子里，在千門萬戶的世界里我能做些什么呢?只有徘徊罷了，只有匆匆罷了;在八千多日的匆匆里，除徘徊外，又剩些什么呢?過去的日子如輕煙，被微風(fēng)吹散了，如薄霧，被初陽蒸融了;我留著些什么痕跡呢?我何曾留著像絲樣的痕跡呢?我赤裸裸來到這世界，轉(zhuǎn)眼間也將赤裸裸的回去罷，但不能平的，為什么偏要白白走這一遭啊?(ZhangPeiji,2007:55-56)TargetText:Livinginthisworldwithitsfleetingdaysandteemingmillions,whatcanIdobutwaverandwanderandliveatransientlife?WhathaveIbeendoingduringthe8,000fleetingdaysexceptwaveringandwandering?Thebygonedays,likewispsofsmoke,havebeendispersedbygentlewinds,andlikethinmists,havebeenevaporatedbytherisingsun.WhattraceshaveIleftbehind?No,nothing,notevengossamer-liketraces.Ihavecometothisworldstarknaked,andinthetwinklingofaneye,Iamtogobackasstarknakedasever.However,Iamtakingitverymuchtoheart:whyshouldIbemadetopassthroughthisworldfornothingatall?(ZhangPeiji,2007:57-58)Example6hasbeenselectedfromanessaynamed“匆匆”(TransientDays)writtenbyZhuZiqingandtranslatedbyprofessorZhang.Therearequiteafewquestionsandparallelsentenceintheoriginaltext,expressingtheregretforwastingtimeinthepast.Thewriteralsorevealedtheideaofhimponderedthemeaningoflife.ProfessorZhanghasmadesomeadjustmentinthetranslatedversion,soastoconnectthesesentenceandquestionstogetherasacompleteparagraph.“在逃去如飛的日子里，在千門萬戶的世界里我能做些什么呢?只有徘徊罷了，只有匆匆罷了,”istheanswertothisquestion.Theyarearhetoricalquestiontogether.ProfessorZhangreproduceditas“Livinginthisworldwithitsfleetingdaysandteemingmillions,whatcanIdobutwaverandwanderandliveatransientlife?”ThissentenceadjustedbyprofessorZhanghasthesamemeaningastheoriginalone,thoughithasanunequalstructurecomparedwiththeoriginalone.Itpreciselyconveyedtheideaofthewriter.Letusmakesomefurtherobservations.“我留著些什么痕跡呢?我何曾留著像絲樣痕跡呢？”aretwoquestionsplaceoneafteranotherbythewriter,theyhavethesamemeaningbutthelatterisstrengtheningtheideaoftheformerone,andalsoemphasizingthestrongemotionofthewriter.Insteadofdirectlytranslatethemintotwoquestions,professorZhangrenderedthemintoaquestionandtheanswertoit.Thefirstquestionisreproducedasaquestionandthesecondquestiontheanswertoit.Thetranslatedversiongoes“WhattraceshaveIleftbehind?No,nothing,notevengossamer-liketraces.”Zhangappliedfournegativewordstostrengthenthegloomymoodofthewriter.Expressionssuchas“no,nothing,noteven…”haveredoubledthenegativeattitudeofthewriter,justasheemphasizedhisgloomymoodbyusingnegativetoneintheoriginaltext.Obviously,thetranslatedtextistotallydifferentfromtheoriginaltext,buttheircoremeaningisthesameandtheirfunctionisidentical,bothofthemachievedthegoalofconveythenegativeofthewritertothereader.Inthisway,Englishreadersmayfindthemselveseasiertounderstandtheideaofthewriterandhaveabetterunderstandingtothetext.Undoubtedly,aboveexamplespresentthattexthandledbyapplicationofDomesticationStrategycanbequiteacceptableandreadablefortheEnglishreaders.ProperapplicationofDomesticationStrategycanreducethedifferenceandthedistancebetweendifferentcultures.Inthisway,thetranslatedtextcankeepthecoherencewithoutstaywiththeidenticalstructureoftheoriginaltext,andbringEnglishreadersclosertothewriter,makingthemeasiertofollowtheemotionalflowsofthewriter,thusthecommunicationbetweendifferentlanguagesbecomepossible.ConclusionBasedonthecaseanalysesofandcomparisonbetweentheoriginalandtranslatedversionsofthethreeessays,itcanbeseenthatDomesticationStrategyisappliedbyprofessorZhangintranslatingChineseproseintoEnglish,especiallywhentheoriginalte