A Corpus- based Comparative Study of Translator’s Style: Focusing on Li Bai’s Poems Translated by Rewi Alley and

— So far, there are many English translations of Li Bai's poems, but the quality of these translations varies. In the past, most translations were evaluated subjectively. However, the rise of corpus study allows that quantitative approach can be used in translation studies. Based on a self-constructed corpus, this paper conducts a comparative study of translators ’ styles reflected in two different versions of Li Bai ’ s poems by Rewi Alley and Xu Yuanchong, which is examined at the levels of vocabulary, sentences, discourse. The findings indicate that the two translators have their unique styles. At the word level, Xu Yuanchong uses more flowery words, whereas Rewi Alley ’ s language is plain. At the sentence level, Rewi Alley’ s version is more formal than Xu Yuanchong’ s, and Xu Yuanchong ’ s version strictly corresponds with the original form, while Rewi Alley prefers to be free. At the discourse level, Xu Yuanchong prefers to translate poems with the metrical style, while Rewi Alley’ s translations are in free verse and easier to understand than Xu ’ s version. A particular effort is further made to interpret the reasons for the different styles of the two translators in the different ideological context. It is hoped that the use of this corpus methodology will contribute to the field of literary translation studies.

sentences, discourse, which influences the readability and target readers' reception. It catches more importance amid the national strategy of Chinese culture "going global".

II. LITERATURE REVIEW
Over the last two decades, the use of corpora increased notably in the evolving field of translation studies, with scholars finding new approaches to analyze translated texts. Baker (1995;1999;2000;  of the words appear more than once in the sentence; therefore, the sentence contains only nine different words, and these are known as types (Bowker, 2001:348). TTR can reveal the lexical complexity of a text to some degree.
A high TTR means that the translator uses a wider range of vocabulary whereas a low ratio means that the translator draws on a more restricted set of vocabulary items. But when the size of two texts differs from each other greatly, it is not convincing to compare the TTR of two different texts. Therefore, standard type-token ratio (STTR) is employed here to calculate TTR based on every 1,000 words, which is generally considered to be a much more reliable and objective indicator of lexical complexity of a text.      Where mountains end begins the plain;

The Analysis of Translator's Style at the Level of
The river rolls to boundless main.
The moon, celestial mirror, flies; The clouds like miraged towers rise.
The water that from homeland flows all beautiful yet none as lovely as my old home; no matter how far I roam, ever I wish to take a boat and return again.

Frequency of Words
Word frequency refers to the frequency of occurrence of different word forms in the text. Word frequency is a basic tool in corpus analysis. A word frequency list allows users to discover how many different words are in the corpus and how often each appears. In translation research, studying word frequency is helpful for studying the styles of the translators. The frequency of word like "the" and "of" can reflect the complexity of phrase and sentence. If the frequency of "the" and "of" is high, the style of the translation is more formal.
Its torrent dashes down three thousand feet from high; As if the Silver River fell from azure sky. such as "on Hsianglu Peak, from afar, in mid air".

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here; the higher text difficulty is, the lower reading ease is.
As it was shown in Table 7, the text difficulty of Xu

Yuanchong's translation is higher than Rewi Alley's, it
indicates Rewi Alley's version is easier to understand than Xu Yuanchong's. And the reading ease of Rewi Alley is higher than Xu, which also shows that Rewi Alley's version is easier to read than Xu Yuanchong's for readers.
The free verse style of Rewi Alley's version may be a contributing factor, because he used words that are plain and easy to understand. This may be related to the translator's purpose and ideology.   IJELS-2021, 6(4), (ISSN: 2456-7620 He believes that if the translator tries to make the text rhyme, or uses obscure language, the translation will become tasteless. The language used by the translator should never be improvised; it should be natural, like water flowing over a round stone.

V. CONCLUSION
Based on a self-constructed corpus of 66 poems of Li

FUNDING
The article is supported by the Yangtze University, China.