Abstract

This thesis aims to compare the Chinese versions of Jane Eyre respectively translated by Huang Yuanshen and Zhu Qingying. According to Functional Equivalence, the translated version of a novel should basically fulfill the functions of meaning equivalence and style equivalence. Thus, a translation should cover both the surface lexical information, and the deep culture information. In other words, a functional equivalent translation must fit the receptor language and culture in order to make the translated message intelligible and natural to the target language receptors.
The paper is divided into three parts. Introductory part includes the significance and the aim of the study, the basic information about the novel, and the layout of the thesis. The second part which is the most important part of this thesis is the comparison of two different versions of Jane Eyre. At the end, the paper comes to a conclusion.

Key Words: Functional Equivalence  Meaning equivalence  Style equivalence

摘 要

论文旨在对比由祝庆英和黄源深翻译的小说《简爱》。根据功能对等理论，小说的译本要基本满足意义对等和风格对等的功能。所以，译本应该包含词汇表面的信息和深层次的文化信息。换言之，一个功能对等的译本必须要切合目标语读者的语言和文化，这是为了使译本对目标语的读者而言，能明了自然。
论文共分为三个部分。介绍部分包括了该研究的意义和目的，小说的基本信息和论文的框架；第二部分是该论文最重要的部分，也就是用功能对等理论对比分析《简爱》的两个译本。最后是结论部分。

关键词： 功能对等  语义对等  风格对等

1 Introduction
The English novelist Charlotte Bronte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire，in the north of England in 1816. She was the third child of the family of one boy and five girls. Her father was an Anglican clergyman. In 1820, her family moved to Haworth amid the Yorkshire moors. In 1824, charlotte attended the Clergy Daughter’s School at Cowan Bridge. In the next year, she returned home for the harsh conditions of the school. Later she went school at Roe Head where she became a teacher. Then she had twice experiences of being a governess. In 1846, she and her two sisters published a small volume of the collected poems, Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. In 1847, her best known novel Jane Eyre was published with great success. Finally, she finished her short but brilliant life in 1855. However, the brilliance of the novel Jane Eyre would never die with her. Since its publication, the novel became one of the most popular novels until today. The book tells a story about an orphan named Jane Eyre. The character is the reflection of Charlotte to a certain degree.