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"saratan" while the second "saratan", which immediately follows, is
left undefined. Both words, however, are definite in meaning. In
Arabic grammatical usage, definiteness occurs when a noun precedes or
is prec o ded by another noun. This phenomenon, known in Arabic grammar
as "i. afa", corresponds to "possessiveness" in English grammar of
which the possessive article "of" and the possessive pronoun "'s" are
clear indications. The meaning of the TL sentence would sound more
natural, idiomatic and, consequently acceptable were it rendered as
" It: \ LOTP)Ittt")..J._j1-L 1-Z-32)3 f:5:11
Translated back into English, the Arabic
re-translation of the same SL sentence reads as follows:7,1.) yii • c)13(3
ts;(/* C5L9 )) '1;j isea;tv-
"The progress achieved in the treatment of cervical cancer,
which human females contract, is an example of a success story
in the cancer field."
In the above sentence, the surface location and syntactic relationship
which holds between the "two cancers" in the SL text are closely
maintained without disrupting or jeopardizing the SL meaning.
In the third paragraph, "... a tumour much smaller than about one
centimetre in diameter" is translated as: "waram yal4 4u , nu asghara
5
bikathi rin min santi mirtin wa hidin fi tu liqutrihiy:.,1A40/(„?.../11,JF
k
cfrP \
- Iv In Arabic, this construction is
grammatically crooked as well as syntactically confusing. The
translator stuck to the formal structure of the SL text much too
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