Practice Study Report On C-E Translation Of Promotional Text For International Student Recruitment

This translation report mainly discusses different translation strategies in the translation process and analyzes why and how to adopt proper strategies in different stages in the translation process of foreign propaganda text.By studying and summarizing individual experiences in the Chinese-English translation practice of promotional text for international student recruitment, the practice report aims to conduct preliminary study and explore for the characteristics and skills of foreign propaganda text, and attempts to solve problems in the translation through the guidance of functional equivalence theory of Eugene Nida, in order to explore effective Chinese-English translation strategies and methods on foreign propaganda text, thus providing certain theoretical enlightenment and methodological guidance for translation practice and the study of foreign propaganda text.The report mainly consists of four parts. The first part is the description of translation material. The second part introduces two periods of the translation process as well as shows the difficulties in translation practice. The third part introduces the translation theory which guides the practice. The forth part is the key part of this report, which focuses on strategy selection and case study of foreign propaganda text under the guidance of functional equivalence theory. The author mainly analyzes six categories of translation strategies:domestication and foreignization, literal translation and free translation, addition and omission.Through practice and analysis, the author found some techniques to deal with the translation of foreign propaganda text. The author draws a conclusion that in the process of translation, various kinds of translation skills are supposed to be combined with each other. Thus translator shall conduct specific analysis towards concrete issues.