A Report On The Translation Of The2013Economic Report Of The President

The2013Economic Report of the President is an annual report released by the White House, which not only reviews the economic performance of the year2012, but also presents an economic outlook in the year of2013.Unlike narrative or expressive texts, The2013Economic Report of the President belongs to the informative text. There are lots of abbreviations or acronyms, economic terms and long and complex sentences in the original text. Therefore, the translator has to face great challenges to reproduce it into target language. Although The Economic Report of the President has been released every year, less attention has been paid to this economic report. Thus, the translator can barely turn to any relevant books for reference, which makes translating this economic report even more challenging.However, rendering this economic report into Chinese is not only conducive to the improvement of individual English competence, but also necessary and important for Chinese people to gain a better understanding of the U.S economic performance and its economic policies.The translation report has summarized the primary linguistic features and unique writing style in the economic report, and presented the main translation bottlenecks with typical examples excerpted from the source text. Meanwhile, the author has applied some translation principles and strategies when translating the original text and made a summary of them in this translation report. Besides, those translation principles and strategies are verified in case analysis part. The major translation principles adopted in translation practice are faithfulness, smoothness and accuracy, and the primary translation strategies include the free and literal translation and domestication and foreignization.