A Translation Report On Low Carbon Energy Supply Technologies And Systems From The Perspective Of Functional Equivalence Theory

In recent years,China has put forward the goal of peaking carbon emission by2030 and attaining carbon neutrality by 2060.Although technologies and industries based on low-carbon energy have become the key field to develop,China’s fuel cell industry is still at an early stage.For this reason,the author chooses the book Low Carbon Energy Supply Technologies and Systems and extracts Chapter 9,Chapter 10 and Chapter 11 as the translation materials.The author hopes that this translation practice may be useful to popularize relevant knowledge about fuel cell technologies and systems and then promote the exchange of information in a scientific and effective manner.This report is completed on the basis of functional equivalence theory put forward by Eugene.A.Nida.After analyzing the original text from the lexical,syntactic,discourse and stylistic perspective,the author summarizes some features of the text.On lexicon level,numerous technical,sub-technical and nominalized words are appeared.On syntactic level,there mainly lies in passive sentence and long and complex sentence.On discourse level,grammatical and lexical cohesion and coherence are mostly applied and discussed.On stylistic level,the source text combines the merits of interesting,easy-to-understand and scientific,and employs equations,figures and tables in a large scale to enhance persuasion and authority.Based on functional equivalence theory,the fifth chapter of the report will elucidate relevant strategies and techniques adopted during the translation process,thus to provide useful information and learning for later translation practices.