On The Translation Of Installation Instruction In The View Of Skopos Theory

Translation of instructions has become significant and urgent task in our life. A standard instruction help companies to promote sales, develop good images, and provide correct installation and maintenance instructions for users, thus bring great convenience to people’s production and living.Choosing instructions as thesis has great realistic meaning. The source text belongs to practical writing, also a kind of technical text. The language in technical translation is objective, accurate and logical, while it is of large quantity of information, high pertinency in practical writing. For the reason, it both has the characteristics of the two kinds, which requires translators to have professional knowledge and strong ability of translating to produce a translation in instruction of high quality. The source text focuses on the description of parts for boilers, installation specification and maintenance. In order to realize the function of source text at a great extent, at the guidance of three rules of "skopos theory", that is, skopo rule, coherence rule and fidelity rule, the translation report makes analyses to the problems encountered in translation. The most impressive problem is how to realize bilingual exchange in consideration of most receptors. Because the readers for boiler installation instruction are skilled workers, the problem most urgent to solve is to translate an easy to understanding instruction for them at the guidance of "skopos theory".In the thesis, the writer made a preliminary summary of translating principles for installation instruction and what has learned from translation. Through the above discussion on the translation of instruction, the writer wishes to share the experience and draw more attention from translation lovers and translators, who can make more researches on the translation of installation instruction.