The Daunting Climate Change: Science, Impacts, Adaptation & Mitigation Strategies, Policy Responses (Chapter 6) English-Chinese Translation Practice Repor

Climate change has become one of the most urgent global issues,with significant impacts on the environment,society and economy.The selected text of the translation practice report is chapter 6 of The Daunting Climate Change: Science,Impacts,Adaptation & Mitigation Strategies,Policy Responses,which focuses on the risks caused by climate change,potential for adaption and future risk management.The original text is a scientific text with objective and logical words.It contains a large number of terms,passive voice and long sentences to elaborate complex ideas.Therefore,the report mainly studies the translation of terms,passive voice and long sentences.For terms,the translator adopts the translation methods of meaning range determination and lexical restructuring;for passive voice,the translator analyzes the methods of translating into passive sentence,active sentence and non-subject sentence;for long sentences,the translator adopts the methods of keeping original order,adjusting word order and sentence splitting.Through the translation practice,the translator hopes to call more attention to climate change and provide a reference for the future translation of texts of the same type.