A Translation Report Of The Cheating Cell:How Evolution Helps Us Understand And Treat Cancer(Excerpts)

As a medical problem in the world today,cancer has always attracted attention.It is an insurmountable part of each of us and multicellular organisms.The theory of evolution made people realize that the historical process of creating life also created cancer.The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer is a book based on the theory of evolution to explain the occurrence and treatment of cancer.The author of the book is American Athena Aketipis.This source text is selected from Chapter 4 of the book.This book deeply studies the relationship between cancer and evolution.After understanding the evolutionary origin of cancer,researchers can come up with more effective and revolutionary treatments.Based on the history of evolution,the author of the book will explain what cancer is,why it occurs and how to better treat cancer.The book also argues that cancer is not only a disease that must be eliminated,it is also a window to understand the origin of life,the nature of multicellularity,and the evolution process itself,and it may even coexist with us.The selected text is a scientific and technological text,which mainly expresses facts,information,knowledge,opinions,with strong language logic.This scientific and technological texts use a large number of complex sentences,passive voices,and professional terms,especially professional vocabulary related to biology.This type of text takes the transmission of information as the primary purpose,pursues the accuracy of meaning,and follows the principle of “content is more important than structure”.Based on this criterion,Catford’s translation shifts theory is very suitable to guide the practice of scientific and technological text translation.Therefore,the author adopts different translation methods and strategies to discuss in detail the translation in terms of titles,terminologies,part-of-speech conversion,passive voice,sentence structure,etc.,in order to explore the application value of translation shifts theory in scientific and technological text translation.In translation practice,the author adopts suitable conversion strategies according to the actual situation to create excellent translations that are easy for readers to accept.This translation project aims to explain the occurrence of cancer to more people based on the theory of biological evolution,and it gives professionals in the field the direction of curing cancer.Meanwhile,there are few academic works related to the theory of cancer evolution,and this theory is still in the exploratory stage.This translation report hopes to provide reference value for parallel texts.The author will also use this report to summarize the advantages and limitations of translation shifts theory applied to scientific and technological texts,aiming to provide valuable reference for future translation practice.