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《我叫露西·巴顿》是伊丽莎白·斯特劳特的作品之一。本书讲述了小说家露西·巴顿对父母的爱的渴望。因为父母的冷漠，她长期忍受孤独的折磨。在一次手术之后，母亲的来访使事情有了转机，女主角与她母亲之间紧张的关系通过交谈得到了缓解。伊丽莎白·斯特劳特是一位美国小说家。她的作品赢得了读者的一致好评，并且多次获得大奖。另外，许多作品也被译介到了中国。

此次翻译实践选择了第五章到第十二章，主要讲述的是女主人公和她的母亲交谈了他们都熟识的一些人的故事。通过这些沟通，露西和她的母亲对对方有了更多的了解并且拉近了彼此的距离。此文虽然语言平实，情节也多是日常生活，但仍然很难翻译。因为小说中有大量的对话并且整本书都由一些零碎的故事组成，在翻译时很难联系上下文。

在小论文的部分，将会详细讨论“信”、“达”、“雅”的指导原则和一系列翻译方法和翻译技巧。在翻译方法的运用上，即理论联系实际的部分，增译法，省译法，直译，意译等都广泛运用在翻译实践过程中。另外，翻译过程中遇到的问题和解决方法也会一并提及。在项目总结中，总结归纳出翻译心得，经验教训以及不足之处。

INTRODUCTION

My Name is Lucy Barton is one of Elizabeth Strout’s works. This book tells the story of novelist Lucy Barton’s desire to her parents’ love. She suffered loneliness because of the indifference of her parents. Things have changed after a surgery, Lucy’s mother came and visited her. Their conversations promoted the relationship. Elizabeth Strout is a famous American novelist. Her excellent works gained many prizes, and all of them won universal praise from the readers. What’s more, many works were translated and introduced into China.

This practice selects chapter 5 to chapter 12. They are mainly about the stories of people that Lucy and her mother are both familiar with. These conversations help them know each other better and shorten the distance of them. Although the language in the text is plain and all the scenes are daily life, it’s still difficult to translate.

Because this novel has plenty of conversations and lots of fragmented stories, so it’s

not easy to translate some sentences with reference to the context.

In essay part, the guiding principles of “faithfulness”, “expressiveness” and “elegance” and translation methods will be discussed in details. Translation methods  as amplification, omission, literal translation and liberal translation are applied in the translation. Problems that encountered during the translation are also going to be described. It also tries to indicate the solutions accordingly. The summary part concludes the experience of this translation and the deficiencies.