Pre-Task Preparation For Consecutive Interpretation And The Application Of On-the-Site Interpretation Strategies

With the communication between China and the rest of the world getting increasingly frequent, the translation between English and Chinese, especially English-Chinese interpretation, is becoming more and more needed. As a result, how to improve the quality of the interpretation has become a prominent issue waiting to be solved in both research area and university teaching.The pre-task preparations and the application of on-the-site interpretation strategies are the two main issues discussed in this paper, aiming at improving the quality of consecutive interpretation. In the first chapter, the characteristics of interpretation are introduced, and the main issues of this paper are drawn out: pre-task preparation and the application of translation strategies. In the second chapter, the pre-task preparation is specifically elaborated. Firstly, the importance of pre-task preparations is stressed. Then with the help of examples, the pre-task preparations are more directly presented, including professional knowledge preparation, language preparation, speech draft or PowerPoint preparation and the relevant equipment preparation. In the third chapter, the application of on-the-site interpretation strategies is firstly introduced in detail, including transliteration, literal translation, adaptation, free translation, negation, amplification and lessened translation. Then later in this chapter, the application of note skills, one of the most important links of interpretation, is particularly introduced. In the fourth chapter, one of my practical interpretation tasks is presented. In this chapter, my practical interpretation task is firstly described and summarized. Then, the pre-task preparation and process of this interpretation task are commentated; meanwhile the application of on-the-site interpretation strategies is introduced. In the last part of this chapter, the difficulties and problems needed to be solved in this interpretation task are listed. The fifth chapter is the conclusion of this thesis. In this chapter, under the background of globalization, the importance of interpreters in the international economy and culture exchanges is stressed. Then, the aim of this thesis is illustrated, which is to improve the stability of interpreters from these two aspects:pre-task preparation and the application of on-the-site interpretation strategies.