A Translation Report On Commissioned Production Cooperation Agreement Of Beijing Foton Company

Cooperation agreement is a negotiated and legally enforceable document ofunderstanding between two or more legally competent parties engaged in a mutuallybeneficial exchange instead of competing. Although a binding contract can (andoften does) result from an agreement, an agreement typically documents the give-and-take of a negotiated settlement and a contract specifies the minimum acceptablestandard of performance.Versions of international cooperation agreement may be of two or morelanguages, among which English version is not only a necessity but also an importantstandard for reference. Therefore, to translate cooperation agreement one shouldnot only be competent in language as well as translation skill but also in backgroundknowledge of international trade and related field of the project on the basis ofcareful study and fully understanding of the source text.The original text of the project is a cooperation agreement (written by English)signed by Beijing Foton company and Iran Khodro Diesel company. The translator isentrusted by the director of overseas department of Beijing Foton company totranslate it into Chinese with the other two translators from overseas department ofBeijing Foton company. In order to produce high quality translation, the translatorpays attention to the interests of the client company, further studying the textcharacteristics and properties of the cooperation agreement to meet the requirementof the entrusted company and contribute to successful cooperation. In the process ofsource text analysis, various related data are collected including parallel text,translation tools and so on, with the help of Lies’ text type theory and Nord’s textanalysis theory. Second, corresponding translation strategies and methods are studiedand selected. Third, problems occurred in translation are sorted, including lexical,technical and syntactic problems. Finally, self-checking and proofreading are used toachieve optimal translation.In the report, translation strategies and techniques of the cooperation agreementtext are summed up, terms list is made, a model of translation is established, and thecommonly encountered problems and translating skills are analyzed in translation. The report on the translation project may provide some reference for the futuretranslation of such text.