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530 China Review International: Vol. 19, No. 4, 2012 example, translating the antonyms shi fei 是非 as “truth and fallacy” ( pp. 81–82). A fallacy is an error in reasoning. The contrast is literally between “is and not” or, by extension, between what is right and what is wrong, between truth and falsehood or falsity, not fallacy. Most, if not all, of the parenthetical expressions used in the translation are not necessary. Either the translated passages that include words or expressions in parentheses can be translated without using the parenthetical expression, or the parenthetical expressions flow as idiomatic English and the translation cannot make sense without using them, in which case the parentheses are not needed. For example, Fisher translates the bibliographical entry about the Shizi as follows: “Shizi in twenty sections [sic]. (His) given name was Jiao, and (he was) from Lu; the Qin chief minister, the Shang Lord, took him as a teacher (and when Shang) Yang died, Jiao fled to Shu” ( p. 35). This passage could be simply presented without the parenthesis as “Shizi in twenty sections. His given name was Jiao, and he was from Lu; the Qin chief minister, the Shang Lord, took
China Review International – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: May 29, 2015
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