A Translation Project Report Of The Natural City: Re-envisioning The Built Environment(Chapter 1)

This is a translation project report of an academic thesis concerning the construction of the city in the future,“In search of the Natural City”. Written by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, this thesis is a part of The Natural City:Re-envisioning the Built Environment, a thesis collection edited by Professor Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Stephen Bede Scharper. It mainly introduces the differences between nature and city, the vision of urban ecological city as well as the general concept of the natural city,which expresses the author’s yearning for the natural city and shows his confidence in its construction. In modern society, the urban construction is confronted with great pressure and challenge. This translation project provides a new perspective for people to understand the relationship between urban city and natural environment as well as how to implement the sustainable urbanization.This report consists of four parts. Part One mainly introduces the background information of the translation project and its value in terms of the current development situation of the city environment; Part Two gives a brief introduction to author of the source text as well as its content and linguistic features; The following Part Three illustrates difficulties in translation and some English-Chinese translation methods in dealing with people’s names as well as long or complex sentences under the help of specific examples;Part Four concludes with lessons, implication and unsolved problems in the translation project.