A Practice Report On The Translation Of Introduction To American Central Park

This translation practice report is based on the translation practice of the Englishintroduction of American Central Park from its official website. It is about the introduction,analysis and summary of process and completion of the translation task. The task is totranslate the English tourism text into Chinese. The comments of my tutor on the drafttranslation are that the language is relatively accurate and fluent but not up to the literarygrace that is expected.The translation practice report is composed of five parts: Task Description, ProcessDescription, Preparations before Translation, Case Analysis and Practice Summary. In the partof Task Description, it introduces the content, customer requirements, target readers,completion time of the translation task. The part of Process Description summarizes the wholeprocess of translation, lists the difficulties which the writer encountered in translation and thesolutions to them, and puts forward the points for attention in the course of translation. In thethird part of Preparations before translation, it makes a comparison of tourism texts in Englishand Chinese languages, and summarizes the basic and unique characteristics of the originaltext. Also included in this part is the three principles of translation skopos theory, which isused to guide the actual translation work. The part of Case Analysis is a demonstration of howthe translation strategies of accommodation and compensation including domestication andforeignization is applied to the translation process under the guidance of three principles oftranslation skopos theory.In Translation Summary emphasis is laid on the requirement that a translator should havea keen sense of transculture and the capability to communicate between cultures and to applyproper translation principle and strategy to a specific text.