English-Chinese Translation Practice Report On The Economic Report Of Central Banks

With the continuous development of globalization and diversification in the world,social and economic activities have become increasingly complex and diversified,and many major socio-economic phenomena need to be reflected through economic reports,which are a kind of news with economic information as their main content,focusing on hot issues of general concern to all sectors of society.Economic reports are targeted,effective,as well as authoritative and credible,reporting the latest changes in the economic field truthfully and accurately.The translation of economic reports can make more people aware of economic developments and the latest changes around the world.This translation practice report is based on the author’s translation of an economic report.This report reviews the entire process of the translation,introducing the various stages before,during,and after it,and then focuses on analyzing the translation skills and methods from lexical,syntactic and discourse levels.At the lexical level,economic reports mostly use professional,metaphorical and functional words,and the translator can apply the skills like conversion,omission,and reverse verification when translating.At the syntactic level,economic reports use many passive sentences,nominalized structures and postpositive attributives,and translation skills such as splitting and restructuring,part-of-speech conversion,and order adjustment can be applied.At the discourse level,economic reports put accuracy and readability in the first place,and translation skills such as repetition,referencing,literal translation and addition can be adopted.With the analysis of a large number of cases,this report reviews the main difficulties encountered in the translation process and lists the translation skills applied so that it may be helpful for the future translation of similar texts.