关键词: 情感, 翻译, 语料库, 《扬子前线》, 情感词汇, 抗日战争

Abstract: China at War is an important book authored by British journalist Freda Utley, reporting Chinas efforts in fighting against Japanese invasion in World War Two. Although the book is a journalistic report in nature, it is rich in affections of various kinds. The paper tries to identify the changes or differences in explicit affect between China at War and its Chinese translation by Shi Meilin published in 1940. On the basis of statistics drawn from the selfbuilt comparative corpus of the source text and target text, it is found that there is a lower density of affection, and a reduced percentage of negative affection in the target text. On the whole, emotion in the target text is suppressed to a large extent. Further analysis identifies that censorship by the publishing supervision organs and ideological disparity between the source text author and the ruling party are the main cause of such changes in affect. This study will hopefully shed some light on the study of affect changes in translation.

Key words: affect, translation, corpus, China at War, affective lexicon, Chinas War of Resistance against Japanese invasion