A Report On The English-Chinese Translation Of Guidance On Mainstreaming Biodiversity For Nutrition And Health(Excerpts)

The consumption of animal flesh brings more and more related diseases,such as Ebola disease and new coronavirus pneumonia,showing that human health and biodiversity are inextricably linked.As a country with a large population,China should pay special attention to the impact of biodiversity loss on people’s diet.The source text selected for this translation practice is the Guidance on Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Nutrition and Health issued by the World Health Organization in 2020,which aims to popularize scientific understanding of the relationship between biodiversity and human dietary nutrition and health,and ways to utilize biodiversity to improve people’s nutrition and health.The Part I and Part II of the Guidance are selected for translation can not only improve translation competence,but also help people to systematically understand the connection between biodiversity loss and nutritional issues and provide guidance for optimizing people’s dietary habits.The source text contains professional expressions in the fields of biology and health.It is necessary to use parallel texts to understand the source text and imitate the corresponding expressions.The source text is a popular science text.Its translation can be analyzed with reference to the Text Typology theory put forward by Katharina Reiss.The report analyzes the difficulties of translation and proposes solutions according to the function and language dimension of the source text.The polysemy and nominalized structure existed needs to be treated with specific contexts and collocations to correspond to fixed expressions in Chinese.Change the part of speech to make the translation in line with expression habits of Chinese.There are rigorous compound sentences and passive sentences that techniques such as splitting,adjustment of word order and conversion of voice,is required to ensure the integrity and logic of the information;and the realization of textual coherence requires grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion.Through this translation practice,the translator has a basic understanding of the global nutrition and health status,and the healthy lifestyle under the current social background,and has a new understanding of the relationship between human and nature.In addition,some translation tools used in the process of translation promotes the translator’s understanding of computer-aided translation tools and helps to improve translation efficiency in the future.