Report On A Simulated E-C Simultaneous Interpretation Of"Apple5c5s Event"

The material of the interpretation project is Apple’s2013iPhone media event held in Cupertino on September11,2013. First of all, the interpreter had a simulated E-C simultaneous interpretation of the video (no subtitles) of the event. The audiences were five non-English major Apple lovers. Then, based on Skopos Theory, the interpreter analyzed difficulties of the interpreting process and wrote this report."Apple5c5s Event" belongs to technology product event. It has the features of professional terminology and mass information. The difficulties of the practice can be described as two aspects, they are:(1) interpretation of electronics terminology;(2) identification and processing of redundancy.According to Skopos Theory, translation is a purposeful communicative action, and the skopos determines the whole translation procedure. The skopos of this project is to offer up-to-date product information to audiences who don’t understand English and the interpretation should be faithful and concise.Given the above difficulties, the following interpretation strategies can be adopted:(1) prediction according to the context and speculation according to common sense;(2) reduction of unimportant information and combination of repeated information.