A Report On The Translation Of "Commercial General Liability Policy(GL35689286)"

With the rapid development of economy in China,the insurance industry,as an important part of the tertiary industry,is becoming more and more important.As a special form of contracts,insurance policies stipulate the obligations,rights and interests between the insurers and the insured.Its contents possess obvious legal binding power,and its texts have distinctive stylistic features.In the process of insurance policy translation,it is of great value and significance to adopt correct translation strategies and methods in accordance with the stylistic features so that the meaning of the source texts can be transferred with great accuracy.The source text of this translation is an excerpt from “General Liability Insurance Policy”.It covers almost all the main elements of commercial general liability policies.After a comprehensive analysis of the special textual features of commercial insurance policies,the translator finds the application value of Functional Equivalence Theory in the field of insurance policy translation.Under the guidance of this theory,preliminary discussions are made about the adaptability of some translation strategies and methods of realizing lexical equivalence,syntactic equivalence and textual equivalence,which obviously have certain reference values for the translation of similar legal texts.The translation practice report consists of four parts: Chapter one is task description.Chapter two describes the translation process.In Chapter three case analyses are made,and Chapter four is the conclusion of this report.Through the translation of this text,the translator hopes to introduce advanced foreign insurance knowledge and notions so as to provide inspirations and references for translations in related fields.