A Translation Report On English Long Sentences

The European Union has become an indispensable force in the world today, and itsactivities now not only impinge more and more on the lives of the citizens of its differentmember states, but also play an important role on the world economic and political stage. Atthe same time, the relationship between China and the European Union gets closer day by day,with close corporations and communications on the area of economy, politics and culture, etc.In contrast, Chinese citizens are lack of basic knowledge of the European Union. So thetranslation of materials that introduce basic knowledge of the European Union seems veryimportant.The book Guide to the European Union written by Leonard Dick gives us acomprehensive introduction of European Union’s origin, history, institutions and functions,which makes readers who knew nothing about the European Union before get acomprehensive understanding of it. The part excerpted from the book mainly introduces theorigin of the European Union and its history.The report consists of four parts: description of the translation task, analysis andpreparation before the translation, case analysis and the summary of this report. The mainlypart of the report is the case analysis, in which the author concentrates on long sentencestranslation strategies in English-Chinese translation and analyzes corresponding casesaccording to different translation strategies, in order to make the analysis more accurate andsummarize translation methods of long sentences in such texts.