A Report On The Translation Of The New World Of Utilities:A Historical Transition Towards A New Energy System(Excerpt)

With the development of society,new energy plays an increasingly important role in people’s life.The development of new energy is an effective supplementary means of the energy supply system,and it is the ultimate energy choice for the sustainable development of human society.Therefore,the source text of this translation report was excerpted from The New World of Utilities: A Historical Transition Towards a New Energy System written by Vincent Petit.The book systematically analyzes the development of the world’s electricity market and the new aspect where various countries take measures to reverse the current situation of the development of the electricity market.The translator selects Chapter 5 as the source text of the translation.This chapter puts forward the measures to realize the sustainable development of the electricity market.After the analysis of the characteristics of the original text and under the guidance of Newmark’s semantic translation and communicative translation theory,the translator uses a variety of translation strategies and methods to solve the problems in the translation process,such as the difficulties in translating technical and semi-technical terms at lexical level and the long and complex sentences at syntactical level.She also summarizes her experience and gains in the translation practice.This report consists of three chapters.The first chapter introduces the translation task including the analysis of the original text,the importance of the translation task and the objective of the translation project.The second chapter describes the translation process including three stages of translation: the pre-translation,while-translation and post-translation.The third chapter involves the case analysis,which deals with the difficulties in translating the original text and applies translation techniques such as amplification,omission,conversion,division and combination to analyze the cases from three language aspects,which are correspondence,understanding,and fluency.Through this translation practice,the author adopts various translation techniques to solve the difficulties encountered in the process of translation.Under the guidance of translation theory,she has completed the translation practice project and deepened the understanding of the power field to the energy field.