A Report On The Translation Of The Great Deformation: The Corruption Of Capitalism In America (Excerpts From Chapter32)

The source text of this translation project is excerpted from Chapter32of TheGreat Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, a New York Timesbest seller by David Stockman. The excerpts point out that the economic recoveryduring Bernanke’s time was just bubble finance at work that was neither real norsustainable. The source text is well worth translating in that the author arguesbrilliantly and his bitter attacks against crony capitalism just hit the nail on thehead.The report consists of four Chapters. Chapter One is the introduction to thebackground, objectives and significance of the project as well as the structure ofthe report. Chapter Two is concerned with the research background for this projectincluding the introduction to the theoretic background for this project and thesource text background. Chapter Three highlights the difficulties in and methodsfor the translation. Major difficulties detected in this translation project are thehandlings of terms and proper nouns, long and complex sentences, figures ofspeech and author’s tone. Under the guidance of communicative translationstrategy, the translator employs transliteration plus notes, sentence segmentationand restructuring, interpretive translation and other techniques to tackle thedifficulties respectively. Detailed analyses of typical examples are provided in thischapter. Chapter Four concludes the translation project report by discussing thegains, the lessons learned and the unresolved problems.