A Report On The Translation Of False Alarm:How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions,Hurts The Poor,and Fails To Fix The Planet(chapter 2)

The source text of this translation report is selected from False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions,Hurts the Poor,and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg,which mainly describes the truth about climate change and measures to solve the problems resulted from climate change.The source text is a typical informative text with concise English,focusing on the accuracy of information transmission.The translation of the text can help readers have a more comprehensive understanding of climate change and inspires the government to make relevant decisions on climate change.The examples analyzed in this report are based on Chapter 2 of False Alarm:How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions,Hurts the Poor,and Fails to Fix the Planet.In the process of translation,Reiss’ s text typology theory is adopted as guidance.For the difficulties in translating the terms,long and complicated sentences and cohesion of discourse,such translation techniques as amplification,conversion,negation,division are adopted to ensure faithful transmission of information from the source text and the translated version conform to the expression habits of the target language.