| Seven Principles for Selecting Software Packages is a popular science article,and it is selected from Communications of the ACM (Association for ComputingMachinery). This article is valuable to be translated owing to the fast development ofsoftware and because there is still no translated text on the market. This report is adetailed description of the whole translation process.This report consists of four parts, which are the descriptions of the task, theprocess, case analysis, and the practical summary. The translation process is dividedinto preparation, translation and finalization. The related knowledge of softwaregrasped during preparation is the foundation of the whole process, for its specializedvocabulary learned by the writer. The translation case analysis illustrates thetranslation difficulties in vocabulary, sentences, rhetoric and style. The vocabulary isof great importance and is analyzed in more details than the others. The summary is ofvalue for reference in translation field. |
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