Analyzing the Usage of Imperative sentences in the Long Story “The Master and Margaret” and Its Chinese Translation Problems

In Russian, the imperative is an important lexical-grammatical device for expressing pragmatic information and the most complex grammatical phenomenon in teaching Russian as a foreign language. However, the pragmatic meaning of Russian imperative is often not accurately conveyed in Russian to Chinese translation. This paper takes the ten Chinese translations of Bulgakov's novel “The Master and Margarita” translated by Yan Yongxing, Wang Zhenzhong, Wang Nan-Fu, Bai Hua-xiong, Xu Changhan, Qian Cheng, Su Ling, Gao Hui-qun, Cao Guowei, and Dai Congxiong as the materials for the study, and focuses on the translations of imperative sentences in the Chinese translations. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the usage of imperative in the original text and its corresponding Chinese translation, assess the quality of its translation, explore the main types of errors in imperative translation, and analyze the causes of mistranslation and its negative impact on the pragmatic meaning of the original text on the basis of the examples, so as to find ways to solve the mistranslations and to improve the methods of translation of literary works. This paper adopts the comparative analysis method to compare and analyze the imperative sentences in the long novel The Master and Margaret and its Chinese translation. The research has an important practical application value, and the research results can be used as a reference for teaching translation and studying Russian grammar.