Civil Engineering Construction Process Chinese-English Translation Practice Report

Civil engineering is related to our daily life. With the rapid development of urbanmodernization in our country, the urban and rural road construction of the whole country is infull swing, so the demand of civil engineering career becomes greater and greater. The articleintroducing the civil engineering construction process is a kind of scientific article and one ofits characteristics is the popularity of null—subject sentences.Null-subject sentence lacks subject. How to translate null—subject sentence into Englishaccurately deserves to be discussed. This report will make a research on the specific problemswhich exist in the translation of Civil Engineering Construction Process. Some typicalsamples of sentences in the original text will be deeply analyzed under the theory offunctional equivalence. Some translation skills, such as passive structure, imperative sentenceand formal subject, are applied in translation.These skills not only reflect the objectivity ofscientific article, but also express their indicative function.