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正确答案：In my opinionthe ideal unit for Chinese-English translation is discourse．To translate the discourseone has to start from the translation of words．The natural procedure for Chinese．English translation is from wordscompoundssentencesand paragraphs to the discoursewhich is actually an English composition with corresponding meaning and similar function of the source text．This should be the format of my book．To make the book practicalI collected pragmatic examples and translations done by famous translators from authoritative newspapersmagazines and books of recent years and made comments on most of them．The comments come from my deep insight of various disciplines and reveal my reaching style-plain and vivid presentation combining theory with practice．They also demonstrate my pursuit to understand whathow and why in translation．
Inmyopinion,theidealunitforChinese-Englishtranslationisdiscourse．Totranslatethediscourse,onehastostartfromthetranslationofwords．ThenaturalprocedureforChinese．Englishtranslationisfromwords,compounds,sentences,andparagraphstothediscourse,whichisactuallyanEnglishcompositionwithcorrespondingmeaningandsimilarfunctionofthesourcetext．Thisshouldbetheformatofmybook．Tomakethebookpractical,Icollectedpragmaticexamplesandtranslationsdonebyfamoustranslatorsfromauthoritativenewspapers,magazinesandbooksofrecentyearsandmadecommentsonmostofthem．Thecommentscomefrommydeepinsightofvariousdisciplinesandrevealmyreachingstyle-plainandvividpresentationcombiningtheorywithpractice．Theyalsodemonstratemypursuittounderstandwhat,howandwhyintranslation．