A Report On The Translation Of Agriculture & Food System To 2050(Excerpts)

This is a E-C translation report excerpted from Agriculture & food system to2050-a series on the basis of challenges of the 21 st century published by world scientific.This report analyzes the ninth chapter-advancing to the next generation of precision agriculture.The aim of this report is to accumulate experience for later translation,and provide some information for other translators.It makes the introduction of the original text,its research background-current translation status,the meanings of material selection;the guiding theories-semantic translation and communicative translation are selected based on the language features and communicative function of the original text;in the light of these two theories,words,sentences,and the discourses are analyzed and translated with some translation strategies;sentences that are misinterpreted or unclear and incoherent during translation are analyzed and corrected respectively to avoid similar mistakes;in the end,weaknesses and gains are concluded.Due to limited translation practices and theories application in practices,the translations and analyses in this report need to be strengthened.