A Translation Project Report On A History Of Knowledge: Past, Present And Future(Chapter One)

This translation report chooses Chapter One of A History of Knowledge: Past,Present and Future, written by Charles Van Doren as a source text. It elaborates on Egypt, India, China, Mesopotamia and their own wisdom; it also describes four religions as well as religious wisdom. The source text is a historical work, and its translation should be based on faithfulness. Under the guidance of this translation strategy this report discusses the solutions used to deal with difficulties and problems in the process of translation, such as getting more background information by reading related books, understanding proper names according to the context and so on, with the aim of providing some references to historical works’ translation.