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This paper tries to analyze problems in combing translation practice and guidance theory in the Graduation Thesis of MT (Master of English Translation) students and give some suggestions to improve this situation, the author hopes that the importance of learning translation theories can be realizeds, not only the students, but also the professors and teachers, and then finds a good way to combine it with practice. Although the goal of MT subject pays more attention to practice, the study of translation theories cannot be neglected. The paper is composed of three parts, part one is an introduction to MT students training mode, in which relation between guidance theory and translation practice is explained; part two presents problems in completing their translation practice report, and here an example is given; in the last part, the author proposes some suggestions for improving the situation, hoping they can be helpful for scholars' reference. Master of Translation and Interpretation (MTI) is an emerging subject which has quickened the process of cultivating professional talents in the field of translation. Being different from academic-oriented postgraduate student, it focuses more on the translation practice training rather than the theoretical study, thus lead to MTI students' relatively weak or even superficial understanding of relevant translation theories. To be more specific, we take MT students as an example, in doing their translation practice report, they may have doubts in choosing the guidance theory to support their translation, and still have a lot of problems in perfectly combing the theory and the practice. Factually, students have the awareness of eliminating the “two-skins” phenomenon, but how to realize it and make the thesis more rigorous is an important issue that calls us to pay great attention to. Here the author tries to analyze the issues and propose some suggestions to cope with it. 1. A Brief Introduction to MT Students Training Mode The way MT cultivates talents is a picture of specialist education, which is a practice-oriented mode to breed professional translators. However, the prospects of the MT students are usually not the same as what they have ever imagined. In order to be capable to do translation work in any circumstances, MT students are required to recite a lot of materials, including a great many fields such as customs and traditions of a certain place, differences between Chinese and western cultures, statements and speeches given by the leader, current situation of economic growth, recent changes in global society etc. Facing such sophisticated materials, MT students must have great patience and convictions to read through and think carefully about the text, and then refer to some relevant data via various media, even turn to some others who are experienced and learned. The twists and turns in exploring the original text can be great barriers, but to understand the original text is the first step in translation. They are required try to grasp the essence of the sentence, paragraph and passage, and then convey it to the target text in their own words without loss in the meaning. Meanwhile, their translation should be as faithful as possible to the original text. However, professors and teachers, as well as Mt students themselves, have more or less ignored the significance of studying translation theories. Translation theory is a kind of comprehensive knowledge which has been concluded by philosophers, linguists, translators, it usually originated in the ancient times, perfected and developed by lots of scholars, so it is of great importance to understand the history of translation, laws, principles and also techniques in it. As what we have mentioned above, MT 2018 International Conference on Arts, Linguistics, Literature and Humanities (ICALLH 2018) Copyright © (2018) Francis Academic Press, UK 210 students just work continuously on translation practice and spare little or even no time on learning translation theories, they can hardly meet the requirements of "good translation". They are expected to meet the requirements of translation, which is even regarded as an art in the eyes of some scholars, but their foundation was not laid in a solid way, it is really contradictory. Here the foundation for a high building refers to their understanding of translation theory. Whenever we mention theory, we argue that theory must be closely related to practice, or in other words, it is practice that makes theory meaningful. But have we ever wondered why we have seldom heard people emphasize that practice must be based on theory? It is an absolute truth and there is no need to doubt about it. Complicated work should be done after careful design and overall schedule, only after we have understand the ways and methods to deal with problems can we take actions, right? In the campus, few MT students would like to read books in the classroom or the library, instead, they prefer to do some translation work as a volunteer in some activities such as meetings, exhibitions etc. They consider them good for improving their translation skills and can gain much experience, of course, their teachers also encourage them to do so. However, why not think more about the future? Translation calls knowledge input, when knowledge is not sufficient to be extracted when you need, what an embarrassing situation you will in! Inspiration comes from abundant knowledge reserves, for MT students, the knowledge reserves can be explained as all kinds of translation theories such as Interpretive Theory, Functional Equivalence Theory etc. By mastering them, MT students can be continuously enlightened, and their inspiration can hardly dry as theory is the origination of translation activity. If we stress it from a specific perspective, it is absolutely needed when doing translation practice report in their graduation thesis. 2. Problems in the Translation Practice Report What has been stated above can be seen as a general introduction to the current situation of MT students. Here we will pay attention to specific problems on doing translation practice report which is usually selected as a form of MT student's graduation thesis. Translation practice report calls MT student to elaborate the details in completing the thesis and the translation techniques and skills adopted in it by giving examples, and the thesis usually contains the following parts: the depiction of the translation task, description of the translation process, introduction to the guidance theory, corresponding techniques and skills used in the translation and conclusions or the purposes of writing this thesis. For MT graduates, the most important thing is to clarify how you combined the guidance theory with your translation practice, or in other words, in which way you got the translation version with the guidance of a certain theory. However, MT students have great difficulties in finishing a paper that can meet the requirements. For example, a student tries to write a paper named A Report on the Translation of Into Porcelain Pillow: 101 Tales from the Records of Taiping Era (Excerpts) under the Guidance of Interpretive Theory. Obviously, the author must analyze the style and features of the materials he chose, determine which theory is proper to guide the translation practice, consider carefully about the way of combining the theory and practice, then he should narrate the interesting stories and anecdotes and his translation version, after which the way he understands the original text and the translation methods and techniques which are used in the translation should be elaborated. Into Porcelain Pillow: 101 Tales from the Records of Taiping Era records the stories and anecdotes in the ancient times, so great efforts have to be made to achieving the equivalence in meaning between original text and target text. The students will inevitably meet difficulties in both understanding the text and conveying the meaning faithfully to the target readers. Facing such situation, students’ attention will be first paid on understanding the original text, and then they will work hard to realize obtaining translation version that can successfully convey the meaning of the original text. However, it is an ancient Chinese book in which a lot of complicated words differ in meaning with modern Chinese, leading to the focus on exploring the meaning of every word and sentence, and then being faithful and expressive; as for elegance, they will pay less attention to it as the original text is hard to understand.

Problems in Combing Translation Practice and Guidance Theory in the Graduation Thesis of MT (Master of English Translation)