Joan Pinkham,美国职业翻译,毕业于哥伦比亚大学巴纳德学院(Barnard College of Columbia University),并在美国著名文理学院明德学院(Middlebury College)获硕士学位。攻读硕士期间获富布赖特(Fulbright)奖学金赴巴黎大学(University of Paris)学习。毕业后在位于纽约的世界卫生组织联合国总部联络处工作十年,担任双语秘书。之后为自由职业翻译,翻译的很多重要著作和文章受到高度评价。曾在我国的外文出版社和中央编译局从事译文修改工作,参与审校周恩来、邓小平、陈云等中国领导人的著作译文。
Part One: Unnecessary Words 1.Unnecessary Nouns and Verbs 2.Unneccessary Modifiers 3.Redundant Twins 4.Saying the Same Thing Twice 5.Repeated References to the Same Thing 6.Summing it All Up
Part Two: Sentence Structure 7.The Noun Plague 8.Pronouns and Antecedents 9.The Placement of Phrases and Clauses 10.Dangling Modifiers 11.Parallel Structure 12.Logical Connectives 13.Summing it All Up
Part Three: Supplementary Examples Key to Exercises Selected Bibliography