摘要随着经济的充分发展，经济的全球化趋势同益明显，广告在现代社会中的作用越来越重要，因而对广告翻译也提出了越来越高的要求。
但是，尽管人们已经对广告翻译进行了大量的实践活动，然而我国对广告翻译的理论研究远远满足不了社会的需求，广告翻译尚未得到充分发展。
广告是一种跨语言、跨文化的交流活动，对输入国消费者的心理、信仰等产生直接的冲击，从而影响商品在目标市场的占有率和销量。
中英语言和文化中的差异决定了广告翻译是一项非常灵活而复杂的工作，在众多的翻译理论中，奈达的功能对等理论提出了这样的概念：译文的接受者对译文信息的反应应该与源语言接受者对原文的反应基本相同。
这一理论正好符合了广告翻泽的特点，即译文应与原文具有相同的劝说功能。
从这个角度来说，功能对等理论应该是指导广告翻译的最佳理论。
本文通过研究分析论证功能对等是指导广告翻译的最佳理论原则之一，在功能对等的理论基础上，着重讨论如何处理广告翻泽中所涉及的语言和文化差异：另外还结合实例提出常见的翻译策略。
第一章中，作者首先介绍了翻译的一般理论，接着详细阐述了奈达的功能对等理论；第二章主要介绍了广告的基本知识，以及广告本身所涵盖的语言特点和文化因素，为后一章节的广告翻译作了铺垫。
第三章作者首先论证了功能对等理论对于广告翻译的可行性，通过分卡厅、探讨，认为奈达的“功能对等”理论非常适合于广告翻泽。
并在此基础上分析了应用功能对等理论为指导，广告译文之于原文在文体，内容以及形式上的总体要求。
第四章是全文的重点所在，说明了目前广告翻译的主要策略。
在第四章中，作者首先说明了广告翻译应当达到两个层次的对等，即语言层次的对等和文化层次的对等。
在功能对等理论的指导下，为了达到最贴切的自然等值，作者在具体分析典型的广告翻译实例基础上，提出了归化转换的翻译策略。
最后一章中，作者对全文予以归纳、概述，并指出了文章不足之处和今后进一步研究的方向。
关键词：功能对等，广告翻译，翻译策略VIAbstractsWith the full development of the economy and the economic globalization trend becoming increasingly evident，advertising is playing a more and more important role in modem society,as a result，there is an increasingly higher requirement in advertising translation．However，despite the fact that people have taken a great dealof practical activities in the field of advertising translation，the Chinese theoreticalresearch of advertising translation still far failed to meet the needs of the community,advertising translation has not yet been fully developed．Advertising is a cross—language，cross—cultural communicative activities，having a direct impact on the consumer psychology and beliefs of the importers，and thereby affecting the share and sales of commodities in the target market．Because of the language and cultural differences between English and Chinese，the advertising translation is a very flexible and complex task．In SO many translation theories，Nida’S functional equivalence theory puts forward such a concept：the reaction ofthe receptors in the target language should be substantially the same as the receptors in the source language．This theory is consistent with the characteristics of advertising translation，that is，the target text should have the same persuasion function as the original text．From this perspective，functional equivalence theory should be a best guiding theory of advertising translation．While pointing out through analysis that the functional equivalence theory is one of the best guiding principles for advertising translation，this thesis focuses on how to deal with the language and cultural differences involved in advertising translation，besides in the end,common strategies of translation are given on the basis of examples．Chapter One first introduces the general theory of translation，and then elaborates on Nida’S functional equivalence theory． Chapter Two includes the basic knowledge of the advertising and advertisement，as well as the language features of advertising，SO as to pave the way for the latter chapters．In the third Chapter，firstly,，thefeasibility of Nida’S functional equivalence theory in advertising translation is fullyVIIelaborated through analysis and discussion，and based on this，the writer further discusses the overall requirements for advertising translation in style，form and content．Chapter Four shows the current strategies of advertising translation．In thischapter，the author states at the outset that the advertisements should be translated totwo levels of equivalence，that is，the language level and the cultural level．Under theguidance of functional equivalence theory，in order to achieve the closest natural equivalence，the author proposes strategies of adaptation based on specific examples of typical advertising translation．The final chapter outlines and summarizes the wholetext，where the author points out the inadequacy of the thesis and the direction offurther study．Keywords：functional equivalence，advertising translation，translation strategies IntroductionAs China is deepening its opening up to the outside world，especially after joining WTO，the international economic activities develop rapidly and the international advertisements grow vigorously．There is a strong need for efficient international advertising communication．Thus the amount of advertising translation keeps increasing．As a specialized and important area of translation，advertising translation has its own features and rules，which deserve an intensive and systematic study．We all know that a successful advertising translation Can influence the customers imperceptibly but enormously,and it can arouse people’S interests in buying the products and bring about profit for a company．While on the other hand，afailed advertisement will not only cause economic losses but also directly influence the image of a company even a country．Incommensurate to its ever growing importance，advertising translation still remains an under explored field as a branch inthe discipline of translation，the study of advertising translation，especially that between the English and Chinese languages，is far from satisfactory in accordance with its need．Until now,no systematic theoretical research on this issue has been sufficiently conducted．There are only a small number of papers making a summary ofthe experience achieved from the advertising translation practice，among which the majority is published in college journals instead of Chinese key joumals．Many of thearticles are descriptive rather than analytical，dealing with specific aspects of advertising translation，such as translation of rhetoric，slang，brands and slogans，andaesthetic properties and SO forth．This thesis，adopting an analytical approach，discusses the application of Nida’S functional equivalence theory in advertisement translation．Instead of focusing on the specific techniques，it tends to focus on thegeneral principles and general translation strategies that should be followed．In general，it consists of four chapters with introduction and conclusion：Chapter One first introduces the general theory of translation，and then presents Nida’S functionalequivalence theory，its development，content and essence．In chapter Two，basic knowledge of advertising has been discussed in great detail，including the development of advertising，definition of advertising and advertisement，classificationof advertising，purposes and functions of advertising，and features of advertising language which have been analyzed from three aspects，namely,lexically, syntactically and rhetorically．Based on the first two chapters，it is thus safe to drawthe conclusion that the application of the functional equivalence in advertising translation is practical and feasible，therefore in the third chapter，the writer firstelaborates on the feasibility of Nida’S functional equivalence theory in advertising translation through analysis and discussion，and then under the guidance of Nida’Sfunctional equivalence，the writer further discusses the overall requirements for advertising translation in style，form and content．Chapter Four is the most important part of this thesis，which shows the current strategies of advertising translation．SinceNida’S functional equivalence theory proposes that translation shall be target languageoriented and target culture oriented，strategies of adaptation are definitely reasonableand unavoidable．In this chapter,a number of examples are quoted to illustrate the application of Nida’S functional equivalence in advertising translation．The conclusionsummarizes the whole thesis，and the author points out the inadequacy of the essay and the direction of further study．2Chapter One Literature ReviewAny factual analysis and practical application need a systematic theory as the backup．With regard to the field of advertising translation，the author will first of allreview briefly the notion of equivalence and Nida’S functional equivalence theory,as the guiding theory in dealing with advertising translation．1．1 Notion of Translation EquivalenceThe first significant statement on translation was made by Cicero(1 06BC-43)in the first century BC，proposing“not to translate word for word，but to translate sensefor sense”．Since then，translation theories have developed for more than 2000 years．The term‘‘equivalence’’first appeared in J．R．Firth’s writing when he stated that‘‘theSO—called translation equivalents between two languages are never really equivalent’’(Firth，1 957)．With the development of linguistics and the linguistic-oriented translation studies in the west，“the concept of translation equivalence has been anessenti al issue not only in translation theory over the last 2000 years，but also inmodern translation studies”(Wilss，200 1：1 34)．“Translation is the replacement of arepresentation of a text in one language by a representation of an equivalent text in asecond language”(Meetham＆Hudson，1 969：7 1 3)．The main goal of translation is toestablish a particular type of correspondence between the source text and the target text．The nature of correspondence has been referred to as“faithfulness’’or ‘‘fidelity'’，or more predominantly,to the notion of“equivalence”．Therefore，equivalence is a central concept in the translation theory．But to gain a full equivalence in translation isonly ideal for all translators．Since“there are，properly speaking，no such things asidentical equivalents”(Belloc，1 93 1：37)，one must try to find the closest possible equivalence in translation．Generally,Studies of translation equivalence could becategorized into the following types：1)referential or denotative equivalence where source language and target language words supposedly refer to the same thing in the real world；2)connotative equivalence where source language and target language words trigger the same or similar associations in the minds of native speakers of thetwo languages；3)quantitative—scheme equivalence where relationships of lexical equivalence，in particular in the area of terminology,are distincted as one-to —oneequivalence，one—to-many equivalence，one—to-part-of-one equivalence or nil equivalence；4)text—normative equivalence where source language and target language words are used in the same similar contexts in their respective languages；5)textual equivalence where source language and target language information flows are similar and the cohesive roles of source language and devices in their respective textsare more or less the same；6)cultural equivalence where source language and target language cultural information are commonly shared by their respective readers．These six categories of translation equivalence mentioned above can be regarded as equivalence in different degrees，with regard to different levels of presentation and atdifferent ranks．However,such classification seems uncontrollable．According to Eugene Nida，equivalence can be generally categorized into two types，of which one is formal equivalence and the other is functional。
