Sentence Structure Translation Issues in Japanese Literary Works

-- Take “Childhood Sweethearts” as an Example

Abstract

Japanese is an SOV-type (i.e. subject-object-verb) language and Chinese is an SVO-type (i.e. subject-verb-object) language. When translating Japanese literary works, we should put aside the habit of using native Chinese according to the SVO-type structure, and instead, according to the contextual background of the original text, take the sentence as the smallest unit, and appropriately adjust the sentence structure of the translation in order to achieve the more desirable translation effect. This paper tries to compare four versions of the translation of the Japanese literary work "Childhood Sweetheart", attempting to discuss the adjustment of sentence structure in translation.