A Report On The Translation Of The Marshall Plan:Dawn Of The Cold War (Chapter 3)

This is a project report on the translation of The Marshall Plan: DAWN OF THE COLD WAR(Chapter3),whose writer is an American economist and professor.The main content of this chapter is to introduce the disagreements and differences between the United States and Soviet Union in discussing how to deal with the post-war Germany and how their disagreements and differences finally result in the dawn of the cold war.The source text is informative text mainly based on the birth of the Marshall Plan over the confrontation period between the US and the Soviet Union.The translation theory chosen by the translator is Newmark’s communicative translation theory.Following the principles of this theory,the translator has adopted translation strategies such as annotation,shift,division,inversion,addition and omission to tackle the difficulties and pursued a direct,understandable and natural translated text.This translation report is divided into five chapters.The first chapter describes the translation project,including project background,significance and structure.The second chapter introduces the source text,including an introduction to the author and the book as well as analysis of the linguistic features.The third chapter introduces guiding theories,communicative translation theory and its applications in translating the source text.The fourth chapter analyzes the main translation difficulties and techniques like annotation and shift in the lexical level,division and inversion in the syntactic and addition and omission in the textual level.Chapter five summarizes experience drawn from the translation project and problems to be solved.