内容简介

《猫的内心生活》是托马斯·麦克纳米所写的一本讲述猫的动物文学作品，在2017年由纽约的阿歇特图书出版。作者是美国的一位著名的作家。全文采用了叙述的手法，对猫的内心世界进行了深入研究。作者通过描述奥古斯塔的生活来呈现猫这一物种的整个身心发展过程。 

整部作品共有八章内容，我选的是第一章——小猫奥古斯塔，作为翻译实践的材料。该材料为英文文本，共有8,764个词，为电子版材料。由于该文本的读者目标人群是中国人士，所以我希望自己在接下来的翻译工作中，能够合理地组织语言，使译文既能体现原文的语言风格，又能符合汉语的表达习惯，从而使中国读者读过译文后能有所收获，有所思考，并得到与原文读者相似的启迪和感受。

小论文主要分为以下几个部分：论文简介，了解文章的背景和方法的必要性，一些问题和解决方法，结论。

“一些问题和解决方法”是主体部分，总共包括三个问题：如何选择合适的中文表达原文并且组织好语言，如何翻译被动句，如何翻译长句子。每个问题下面提供了两个版本用作对比研究和修改的原因。

INTRODUCTION

The Inner Life of Cats is written by Thomas McNamee，who is a celebrated American male writer. It is an animal literature about cats published by Hachette Books of New York in 2017. The author adopts narrative technique to study deeply the inner life of cats. He presents the whole process of cats’ physical and mental development by describing Augusta’s life.

 The whole work contains eight chapters. Chapter 1 was chosen for practice. This chapter is an English text, containing 8,764 words. Because the target audience for the text is Chinese, therefore the language used in the translated version should reflect the style of the original version. Then Chinese readers will gain something from it and get similar enlightenment and feeling as source-language readers .

 The thesis is mainly divided into the following parts, introduction of the thesis, the necessity of knowing the text’s background and methods of translation, some problems and solutions, and conclusion. 

 “Some problems and solutions” are the main body, which involves three questions, how to select suitable Chinese words to express source language and organize sentences well, how to translate passive sentences, and how to translate long sentences. Under each example, two versions are provided for a comparative study, and the reasons for the modification are also included.