本课程为翻译硕士专业的基础必修课，旨在帮助学生掌握有关翻译的基础知识和常用方法。通过各种体裁、内容丰富的练习材料和课堂讲解，让学生对翻译实践和理论有一个比较全面宏观的了解。在教学上，通过对各种典型译文进行深入浅出的分析和比较，重点强调基础知识和技巧的掌握，做到举一反三、灵活应用，为进一步提高翻译能力夯实基础。

This course is designed to give students systematic basic training in English-Chinese translation. Important skills involved and common difficulties are explained in details both at sentence and discourse levels. In the course, students are trained to do translation in a manner that is faithful to the original text and fluent in the target language.