A Report On The C-E Translation Of The Subtitles Of The MOOC:Water Energy And Water Resources Utilization-Water Conservancy Project(Excerpt)

With the popularity of Internet and the increasingly frequent academic exchanges among different countries,people worldwide can get high-quality educational resources online.And MOOC courses,as popular online courses,gradually play crucial roles in the diffusion of culture and education.Chinese MOOC is an indispensible part of this diffusion.In order to promote Chinese MOOC,C-E translation of the subtitles has become a must.Accurate subtitle translation can help the audiences understand the courses and get the correct information.This report is intended as a translation report that studies the C-E translation of the subtitles of the MOOC: Water Energy and Water Resources Utilization--Water Conservancy Project(Excerpt),as a part of the third batch of MOOC subtitles translation project of Kunming University of Science and Technology in 2021.The source text of this translation project has both the linguistic characteristics of a scientific and technical texts in terms of logic and accuracy,and that of a subtitle text in terms of colloquiality and communication,so the translation theory chosen by the translator must be able to satisfy the duality of the linguistic characteristics of this text.Based on the above analysis,the translator selects Skopos Theory as the guiding theory,and through specific cases,she analyzes the application of the translation techniques of verification,conversion of part of speech at lexical level and splitting,conversion of voice,reconstruction at syntactical level,and omission and amplification at cultural level.With this report,the translator also wants to provide some references for future subtitle translation of MOOCs.