A Translation Project Report On The E-C Translation Of Teenagers Popular Science Book-tell Me About

This is a translation project report. The original work Tell Me About in English is one of the teenagers’popular science series, published by the Chancellor Press. Teenagers are now at the golden age of learning, andgood popular science books can give them chances to accumulate the extensive extra-curricular knowledge, butalso inspire their imagination, exploratory and intellectual curiosities. As a useful supplement and guidance tothe original works, in recent years, a large number of foreign popular science works have been translated andintroduced in China, but most of them may not meet the needs of young readers and becoming the best sellingbooks. Some translators and authors have overlooked the adolescent characteristics and haven’t put theacceptability of translation into consideration. In translation, the features of the original books couldn’t bepreserved fully. So it is becoming more and more important to make a thorough study on the translatingtheories and strategies in the English-Chinese translation of popular science texts for teenagers. The versions willplay a positive role in the dissemination of scientific knowledge.On the basis of the first five parts of the English-Chinese translation work—Tell Me About, the reportconducts a preliminary study on the translation strategies of popular science text for teenagers under theguidance of Adaptation Theory. The translation project report consists of seven parts. It introduces the generalinformation of the translation project and gives an analysis on the types and characteristics of the popular sciencetext in the first and second part respectively. The third part elaborates the pre-translation preparation, makes theworkable translation plan and introduces briefly the theoretical framework concerning translation strategies ofpopular science texts. The actual translation process is illustrated specifically in the fourth part. Part five mainlydiscusses how to evaluate the quality of translation in the post-translation process. In the sixth part, the reportchiefly explains on what basis the translation problems are solved in the actual translation and then introducesthe translation strategies of popular science texts for teenagers through the case analysis. The reflections andunderstanding on the translation practice is also summed up in the last part. The report shows how theAdaptation Theory guides the practice in the actual translation to solve various problems.