摘要：keyword: ENGLISH-INDONESIAN, TRANSLATION ARTICLEABSTRACT :This is a research paper of the translation of an article entitled �The Story of Oprah� taken from The Australian Women�s Weekly magazine, February2005 edition. This article is very interesting and really worth reading, that iswhy it is chosen to be translated from English into Indonesian. �The Story ofOprah� tells about Oprah�s inspirational life. It is about her long andinspiring journey from poverty to powerful superstar. This article is translated toapply the theories of translation and to understand how the idiomaticexpressions are translated from the source language into the target language. The theories of translation, which are applied, are the process of translation, procedures of translation, and kinds of translation. During translating �TheStory of Oprah�, the writer found some difficult words to be translated totarget language. The writer also found some difficult idiomatic expressions tobe translated into Indonesian. However, the writer get a solution that idiomaticexpression are not to be translated word for word because it would soundstrange and not relevant.
