HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY MID -TERM TEST ON TRANSLATION THEORIES

FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH (No 3)

Subject Code: EN43
Full name: ………………………………...............
Date of birth: ………………………………...........
Group: …………………………………….............
I. Answer the following questions: (40 points)
1. What are Nida's Linguistic Theories of Translating?
2. What are Nida's Sociolinguistic Theories of Translating?
(The file sent will be named after each student’s name. Plagiarism will lead to failure)

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II. Translation practice
1. Read the text and find out the features of the situational context (30 points)
... He was a comely handsome fellow, perfectly well made, with straight, strong
limbs, not too large, tall, and well shaped; and as I reckon, about twenty six years of age.
He had a very good countenance, not a fierce and surly aspect, but seemed to have
something very manly in his face; and yet he had all the sweetness and softness of a
European in his countenance, too, especially when he smiled. His hair was long and
black, not curled like wool: his forehead very high and large; and a great vivacity and
sparkling sharpness in his eyes. The colour of his skin was not quite black, but very
fawns. His face was round and plump; his nose small, not flat like the Negroes, a very
good mouth, thin lips, and his fine teeth well set and as white as ivory...

...In a little time I began to speak to him, and teach him to speak to me: and, first, I
let him know his name should be "FRIDAY", which was the day I saved his life. I called
him so for the memory of the time.
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2. Translate the text into Vietnamese (30 points)

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Một số yêu cầu:

+ Sinh viên nộp file word lên hệ thống
+ Ghi rõ mã đề trong bài làm.
Chú ý:
+ Chế tài xử lý đối với bài phát hiện có sự sao chép ( VD: nếu phát hiện sao chép thì bài làm của
sinh viên sẽ không được công nhận và nhận điểm 0….)
+ Giảng viên có thể trao đổi, nhận xét góp ý cho bài làm của sinh viên trên diễn đàn hoặc buổi
Vclass (SV tham gia lớp Vclass đầy đủ để được giải đáp)