A Report On The Translation Of Fragile Futures:The Uncertain Economics Of Disasters,Pandemics And Climate Change(Chapters 13 & 14)

This is a report on the translation of chapter 13,“From Environmental Concerns to Climate Change”,and chapter 14,“From Climate Change to Global Warming”,of the book Fragile Futures: The Uncertain Economics of Disasters,Pandemics and Climate Change written by Vito Tanzi.The topic of the source text is about climate change and global warming.The author aims to attract people to pay attention to climate change and global warming and their impact on environment and humankind.The translator hopes that more people can understand the intention of the author through this translation project and pay close attention to global environmental issues.The source text covers meteorological and economic knowledge.It falls into informative text.In the translation process,the translator finds that it is challenging to render polyseme,terminologies,and long and complex sentences into Chinese,so they become the focus of the report.Under the guidance of Peter Newmark’s communicative translation theory,the translator discusses the translation techniques for polyseme,terminologies,and long and complex sentences through case studies.The translator employs explicitation to render polyseme;addition and annotation to address terminologies;division,reversion and recasting to translate long and complex sentences.