On C-E Translation Of Filming Collaboration Agreement From The Perspective Of Functional Equivalence

In recent decades, Chinese filming industry witnesses a fast development. The filming cooperation in overseas shooting or venturing with foreigners is increasing gradually. Plus, English is a language popular in the world, so the need of translating Chinese filming cooperation agreements into English is on the increase. An incoherent and ill-formed cooperation agreement weaved by wrong words and grammar will leave others a bad and unskilled impression. Therefore, it is vital for Chinese filming companies to render a proficient, accurate and normative agreement in English. In this paper, with the author’s once translated filming cooperation agreement as the study object, the author makes a summary of the problems arising in the process of translating and solutions to them.In 2014, the author got a task of translating a Chinese filming project cooperation agreement of 8000-character-plus into English from an information company in Wuhan. the author describes the process before, during and after the translating. Then, the author decodes the agreement text from the perspective of functional equivalence theory. Under the guidance of this theory, the author analyzes the skills and things that the author needs to pay attention to from four layers:lexis, syntax, text and style. This paper is written according to the author’s own experience, based on many periodicals readings about Chinese agreements, contracts translated into English. This paper is the experience the author gets from this translation task and the author hopes it will serve those who just walks in agreement translation as a guide.