A Translation Report Of Eating Disorders And Obesity (Excerpts)

This paper is a translation project report. The source text is Chapter9EatingDisorders and Obesity from the psychological authoritative book Abnormal Psychology.In this chapter, the author describes the clinical aspects of the psychologicalphenomenon named eating disorders, its risk and causal factors. Many examples areused in this book in order to make the readers understand the psychologicalphenomenon most comprehensively as well as improve their self-awareness. Whentranslating this kind of informative-type social science text, which contains a number ofterms related to psychology, the translator should pay more attention to the functionalequivalence rather than the formal equivalence.