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E.g. Japan joins high-speed railway bid.
5) Use of Nouns
Divorce New York Style (NYT) 纽约式离婚 Cabinet Papers Leak Inquiry (Guardian) 内阁文件泄密事件调查 Corruption Reports Against Police Rise (NYT) 指控警方受贿呼声四起 GOP Shakedown Cruise (Newsweek) 共和党的（竞选）试航（揭开序幕）
——Collins Cobuild English Dictionary(P1111)
2
Distinctive Nature of News
Be new
Only those new things, new problems, new people, new ideas, and new experiences can become news.
Abbreviation
Clipped words 部分省略
Initialisms 首字母缩略词
Acronyms 缩略词
Chute Parachute
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Loran Long-range navigation
Abbreviations (Clipped Words)
Distinctive Nature of News
Be true
(News is the report of facts, without facts there would be no news)
Be known to Public
How many kinds of news are there ?
1) Impact (importance, consequence or significance) 2) Unusualness (bizarreness, oddity or novelty) 3) Prominence 4) Timeliness and freshness 5) Proximity (nearness or locality) (people are more concerned with news closely related to them) 6) Conflict 7) Human interest
Abbreviations ( Acronyms & Initials )
1. WTO World Trade Organization 2. NPC the National People‘s Congress
全国人民代表大会
3. CPPCC Baidu Nhomakorabeahe Chinese People‘s Political Consultative Conference 中国人民政治协商会议
Due to different classifying standards, there are different kinds of classifying approaches.
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Classification of News
1) When considering transmitting tools, we will come up with newspaper coverage, magazine coverage, radio news, TV news and dispatches.
Translation of News
What is News ?
News is information about a recently changed situation or a recent event, which is published in newspaper or broadcast on radio, TV.or other media.
biz＝business lib＝liberation pro＝professional Nat‘l＝national Com‘l＝commercial
Grad—graduate
hosp—hospital bn—billion pc—percent cig —cigarette
Grammatical Features of News Headlines
1) Tense 2) Voice 3) Non-finite Verbs 4) Ellipsis 5) Punctuation
1) Tense
The simple present tense The simple future tense The present continuous tense
E.g. Uk to Open Discussion on Anti-terror Law
anti – prefix
3) Use of Blending Words
E.g. High-tech High+technology
4) Use of Compound Words
夫妻联手解开了新的基因奥秘
The Simple Future Tense
Use infinitive to express simple future tense
Last two Beirut hostages to go free
贝鲁特最后两名人质获释在望
The Present Continuous Tense
News usually reports what happened, but it needs to give people freshness in form. E.g. Comeback Gives China a Sensational Thomas Cup Win 中国队反败为胜 荣获汤姆斯杯 Husband and Wife Team Unlocks New Gene Secrets
The Simple Present Tense
French Culture Is In The Doldrums 法国文化颓然不振
One of the Lost Tribes of Israel Surfaces in India 一个被忘却的以色列部落在印度出现
The simple present in news is “ Journalistic Present Tense” (新闻现在时) , which is often used to say about the past.
Be fresh/timely
时新性
If the true and new facts were not released timely, news would become old and valueless.
―Yesterday‘s newspaper is only good for wrapping fish. The all-important news element fades into history within 24 hours.‖ ——Williamson, 1975
Classification of News
4) In the light of different natures of news events, the content can be divided into hard news and soft news. (Harris, D.H. & Wynford, S.C., 1998) Hard news has traditionally been event- based. (E.g. election, weather disaster, government meeting, traffic accident, arrest in a drug deal, etc.) 记实性较强
6) The Use of Midget Words
help --- assistance try --- attempt car --- vehicle ease --- facilitate home --- residence enough --- sufficient fire --- conflagration probe --- investigate row --- conflict talk --- address envoy --- ambassador
usually in the first para.导语
Body
gives a terse and clear description of the event under discussion
Background Conclusion
How to Translate News Headlines ?
3) As to the content, we have political news, economic news, violence and crime news, disaster news, weather news, obituary news, entertainment news and miscellany news.
Soft news is more human interest-based and less dependent on specific events. (e.g. profiles, travel stories, social news, humor, etc.) 记实性较弱
News Values
13
Distinctive Features of Headlines
Features
Lexical 词汇
Grammatical 语法
Rhetorical 修辞
Lexical Features of News Headlines
1) Frequent use of abbreviations
Saving space Make the headline more striking More eye-catching
2) According to the region and area that events happened in, there are world news, home news and local news. (James E. Roper, 1998) 国际性、全国性、地方性
Classification of News
Appearance of News
News reporting Features 特写 Editorial 社论 Advertisements
消息报道
广告
Five Parts of News
Headline/Title
highlights the topic concerned
Lead/Introduction
Headline is the life blood of news.
Readers are usually judge by headlines to know the rough idea of the news, or to decide whether to continue reading.
OPEC
WHO PC PR GM
World Petroleum Exporting Counties
World Health Organization Personal Computer
Public Relation
General Motors
2) Use of Derivatives
5) Use of Nouns
Divorce New York Style (NYT) 纽约式离婚 Cabinet Papers Leak Inquiry (Guardian) 内阁文件泄密事件调查 Corruption Reports Against Police Rise (NYT) 指控警方受贿呼声四起 GOP Shakedown Cruise (Newsweek) 共和党的（竞选）试航（揭开序幕）
——Collins Cobuild English Dictionary(P1111)
2
Distinctive Nature of News
Be new
Only those new things, new problems, new people, new ideas, and new experiences can become news.
Abbreviation
Clipped words 部分省略
Initialisms 首字母缩略词
Acronyms 缩略词
Chute Parachute
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Loran Long-range navigation
Abbreviations (Clipped Words)
Distinctive Nature of News
Be true
(News is the report of facts, without facts there would be no news)
Be known to Public
How many kinds of news are there ?
1) Impact (importance, consequence or significance) 2) Unusualness (bizarreness, oddity or novelty) 3) Prominence 4) Timeliness and freshness 5) Proximity (nearness or locality) (people are more concerned with news closely related to them) 6) Conflict 7) Human interest
Abbreviations ( Acronyms & Initials )
1. WTO World Trade Organization 2. NPC the National People‘s Congress
全国人民代表大会
3. CPPCC Baidu Nhomakorabeahe Chinese People‘s Political Consultative Conference 中国人民政治协商会议
Due to different classifying standards, there are different kinds of classifying approaches.
6
Classification of News
1) When considering transmitting tools, we will come up with newspaper coverage, magazine coverage, radio news, TV news and dispatches.
Translation of News
What is News ?
News is information about a recently changed situation or a recent event, which is published in newspaper or broadcast on radio, TV.or other media.
biz＝business lib＝liberation pro＝professional Nat‘l＝national Com‘l＝commercial
Grad—graduate
hosp—hospital bn—billion pc—percent cig —cigarette
Grammatical Features of News Headlines
1) Tense 2) Voice 3) Non-finite Verbs 4) Ellipsis 5) Punctuation
1) Tense
The simple present tense The simple future tense The present continuous tense
E.g. Uk to Open Discussion on Anti-terror Law
anti – prefix
3) Use of Blending Words
E.g. High-tech High+technology
4) Use of Compound Words
夫妻联手解开了新的基因奥秘
The Simple Future Tense
Use infinitive to express simple future tense
Last two Beirut hostages to go free
贝鲁特最后两名人质获释在望
The Present Continuous Tense
News usually reports what happened, but it needs to give people freshness in form. E.g. Comeback Gives China a Sensational Thomas Cup Win 中国队反败为胜 荣获汤姆斯杯 Husband and Wife Team Unlocks New Gene Secrets
The Simple Present Tense
French Culture Is In The Doldrums 法国文化颓然不振
One of the Lost Tribes of Israel Surfaces in India 一个被忘却的以色列部落在印度出现
The simple present in news is “ Journalistic Present Tense” (新闻现在时) , which is often used to say about the past.
Be fresh/timely
时新性
If the true and new facts were not released timely, news would become old and valueless.
―Yesterday‘s newspaper is only good for wrapping fish. The all-important news element fades into history within 24 hours.‖ ——Williamson, 1975
Classification of News
4) In the light of different natures of news events, the content can be divided into hard news and soft news. (Harris, D.H. & Wynford, S.C., 1998) Hard news has traditionally been event- based. (E.g. election, weather disaster, government meeting, traffic accident, arrest in a drug deal, etc.) 记实性较强
6) The Use of Midget Words
help --- assistance try --- attempt car --- vehicle ease --- facilitate home --- residence enough --- sufficient fire --- conflagration probe --- investigate row --- conflict talk --- address envoy --- ambassador
usually in the first para.导语
Body
gives a terse and clear description of the event under discussion
Background Conclusion
How to Translate News Headlines ?
3) As to the content, we have political news, economic news, violence and crime news, disaster news, weather news, obituary news, entertainment news and miscellany news.
Soft news is more human interest-based and less dependent on specific events. (e.g. profiles, travel stories, social news, humor, etc.) 记实性较弱
News Values
13
Distinctive Features of Headlines
Features
Lexical 词汇
Grammatical 语法
Rhetorical 修辞
Lexical Features of News Headlines
1) Frequent use of abbreviations
Saving space Make the headline more striking More eye-catching
2) According to the region and area that events happened in, there are world news, home news and local news. (James E. Roper, 1998) 国际性、全国性、地方性
Classification of News
Appearance of News
News reporting Features 特写 Editorial 社论 Advertisements
消息报道
广告
Five Parts of News
Headline/Title
highlights the topic concerned
Lead/Introduction
Headline is the life blood of news.
Readers are usually judge by headlines to know the rough idea of the news, or to decide whether to continue reading.
OPEC
WHO PC PR GM
World Petroleum Exporting Counties
World Health Organization Personal Computer
Public Relation
General Motors
2) Use of Derivatives