A Translation Practice Report On Beautiful World,Where Are You(Chapters 5 To 8)

This English-Chinese translation practice material is excerpted from the novel Beautiful World,Where Are You written by Irish writer Sally Rooney which elaborates the lives of two girls Alice and Eileen.Chapters 5 to 8 of the book were chosen as the translation material.In this novel,Alice meets Felix after she has been discharged from hospital,and Eileen slips back into flirting with Simon,a man she has known since childhood.It mainly tells things happened before the two couples meeting in Rome.The original text of this practice report belongs to contemporary literary novels,and the original author’s style is plain and delicate which reflected by lots of communications and e-mails.Therefore,pragmatic adaptation theory is applied as the guiding theory to analyze the translation version from vocabulary,syntax and context,in order to enhance the readability of the translation version.By adopting a series of flexible translation strategies such as addition,repetition,part of speech transformation and sentence structure adjustment,the translator aims to help Chinese readers get the same reading experience as that of English readers.This practice report builds a bridge between Chinese and Western cultures,and allows Chinese people to learn western social development and values by reading.Thus,they can understand themselves more deeply and enrich their knowledge.This translation practice has proved that pragmatic adaptation theory provides a guide for translators to choose proper translation strategies in the process of translation,and effectively solves the translation difficulties caused by the differences of language structure,culture and social cognition.