A Report On The Translation Of Dahl’s History Of The Book

The translation report is a comprehensive summary of how translation theories and skills are employed in the process of translation. The material is an excerpt from Dahl’s History of the Book, including the Preface, Introduction and Chapter One. This section mainly talks about the origin of writing, a variety of writing systems and writing materials, and it plays an important role in the whole book. In order to be faithful to the original material, literal translation was used as the main translation strategy. After the translation was completed, the author summarized the various translation difficulties encountered in the translation process and the process of how to resolve these difficulties in the translation examples. Through this translation, the author made great progress in translation theories and skills, but was also aware of lots of shortcomings. From now on, the author will learn from experts, try to widen the scope of knowledge, and stick to the principle of improving translation under the guidance of the theory.