A Translation Project Report Of Regulating Three-dimensional Printing: The Converging Worlds Of Bits And Atoms(Chapter 3 &Chapter 4)

This is a translation project report of Regulating Three-Dimensional Printing: The Converging Worlds of Bits and Atoms(Chapter Three & Chapter Four). In these two chapters, the author Lucas S. Osborn explores some novel issues that would be raised by 3D printing technology and demonstrates the breadth and depth of 3D printing’s impact on the existing legal regime, asking readers(especially legal experts, courts and legislators) to be careful with related legal cases and decision making. Besides, he also proposes a regulatory framework to help readers to solve practical problems. The source text of the report is a legal academic thesis, which was first published in July 2014 on San Diego Law Review(Vol.51, P553).The project takes Eugene A. Nida’s Functional Equivalence as its theoretical basis, and its concept is that translation aims to reach functional equivalence instead of lexical and grammatical correspondence. To produce a satisfactory functional equivalence, formal adjustments should be made when it is necessary. The source text of the report shares some similarities with a legal text due to its features of accuracy in wording, rigor in logics, and the frequent use of legal terminologies and long sentences. This kind of text requires the dual equivalence of content and style. During the process, the translator applies a series of translation methods to handle the difficulties such as legal terminologies and long sentences, to guarantee a closest natural equivalence.