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Chapter One Introduction 

Translation studies have paid more attention on two major trends of translation in the past century. And one is linguistic turn and the other is cultural turn. Moreover, the last century has witnessed that the latter one is becoming more and more popular. As translation  works  have  been  published  in  groups,  more  scholars  have  realized  that translation is related to the cultural and social background that it belongs to. Due to the description of social and cultural background, thick translation as a new development momentum has been becoming an ordinary issue in the translation circle.  

1.1 Research Background 
The Return of the Native (1878) is one of Thomas·Hardy’s master works which is called  “character  and  environment”  revealing  the  conflicts  between  sensibility  and environment,  personality  and  circumstance,  and  it  is  praised  as  the  masterpiece  of English literature. “The Return of the Native presents a departure in the development of Mr. Hardy’s genius…with a deeper perception of the contrast between human passion and natural repose with a more subtle sense of their affinity.” Lawrence,  D.  H. once wrote about this novel, “What is the great, tragic power in the book? It is Egdon Heath. And who are the real spirits of the Heath? First, Eustacia. Then Clym’s mother, then Wildeve” (Lawrence,  D. H. 1936,  p.  34).  Egdon Heath signs the breaking point of Hardy’s creation career in this  novel, since it suspends Hardy’s cheerful and idyllic keynote into tragic tune, from comedy to tragedy.  The story in The Return of the Native happened between 1840s and 1850s, which was set in a remote and distant place of England called Egdon Heath. In the novel, Hardy  narrated tragic  lives  in Egdon Heath induced by English capitalism invasion which  happened  at  the  end  of  nineteenth  century  and  through  this  novel,  Hardy explored  his  distinguished  theme  on  the  combination  of  the  environment  with  the characters. He described the complicated emotions of people, and most of them were lonely. These characters in this novel had a great longing for companionship and love. However, they could not pursue them fortunately; hence Hardy’s presentation of human emotions was universal. Both Darwin’s (1954) The Origin of the Species and Spencer’s (1862) First Principle affected Hardy.
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1.2 Significance of the Study 
This thesis takes the English Version of The Return of the Native by Hardy and the translation  of  The  Return  of  the  Native  by  Zhang  Guruo  as  the  research  objects. Contrasted with the English version and the Chinese version, the author attempts to find out the reason why the translation is much thicker than the English version through the comparative study in the aspects of strategies of thick translation. Therefore, the author herself chooses the most typical differences which are extracted from these two books as the examples signed with ST and TT for source text and target text as 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。