A Report On Translating Daring Greatly: How The Courage To Be Vulnerable Transforms The Way We Live, Love, Parent, And Lead (Excerpts)

According to IPSOS，71%of Chinese people evaluate one’s success by one’s materialwealth. That’s why people are reluctant to talk about vulnerability and shame. However,the more the thing is unspeakable, the more it tends to be an obstacle to our ideal life. Inorder to find a wiser way to improve ourselves, Dr. Brené Brown, a researcher on socialwork, has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, shame, courage and worthiness.In her Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live,Love, Parent, and Lead, she encourages us to face our vulnerability and shame to seekfor innovation and change. This book is a popular reading for the general public. BrenéBrown writes in colloquial language to explain some complex psychological concepts.Therefore, information equivalence and terminology consistency are most important intranslation. In this report, the translator gives a detail analysis of the process of thetranslation task. How the techniques of sememe analysis, amplification, adaptation,interchange and interpretation are used in the translation to keep terminologies inconsistency. Finally, the translator summarizes that any translation should be based onthe translator’s thorough understanding of the source text. Good translation needsscrutinized proof-reading and revision.