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此次翻译实践选取美国女作家伊迪丝·华顿《夏天》中第7-8章的文本，此书无人翻译过且难度适中。

本论文主要分为两部分：翻译部分和小论文部分。

翻译部分的材料来自《夏天》第7-8章，是一部成长小说。描写了底层社会的女主人公想要追求理想生活却又被现实折磨，展现了她成长历程中内心的矛盾与挣扎。这篇小说的意义在于让读者意识到女性的生存状态以及成长过程。

小论文部分简要介绍该书的内容，以及标注了在翻译过程中所碰到的困难和采取的一系列解决方法。在此篇翻译实践中采用了“功能翻译论”这一理论，既译本应与原文保持一定的联系，虽然译者有权利修改原文，但这种修改不能脱离原文，必须以原文为基础，不能凭空想象、胡乱修改和添加。必须忠实准确地表达原文内容，使译文读者能像原语读者一样理解原语作者的写作内容及其写作风格。在报告的最后,总结了此次翻译实践中的经验和不足之处，希望为以后文学作品翻译，尤其是小说翻译实践提供有价值的借鉴。

翻译实践原文

VII

SINCE her reinstatement in Miss Hatchard’s favour Charity had not dared to curtail by a moment her hours of attendance at the library. She even made a point of arriving before the time, and showed a laudable indignation when the youngest Targatt girl, who had been engaged to help in the cleaning and rearranging of the books, came trailing in late and neglected her task to peer through the window at the Sollas boy. Nevertheless, “library days” seemed more than ever irksome to Charity after her vivid hours of liberty; and she would have found it hard to set a good example to her subordinate if Lucius Harney had not been commissioned, before Miss Hatchard’s departure, to examine with the local carpenter the best means of ventilating the “Memorial”.

He was careful to prosecute this inquiry on the days when the library was open to the public; and Charity was therefore sure of spending part of the afternoon in his company. The Targatt girl’s presence, and the risk of being interrupted by some passer-by suddenly smitten with a thirst for letters, restricted their intercourse to the exchange of commonplaces; but there was a fascination to Charity in the contrast between these public civilities and their secret intimacy.