A Report On The Translation Of Chapter Two Of Thrive: The Third Metric To Redefining Success And Creating A Life Of Well-being, Wisdom, And Wonder

With the development of economy and people’s pursuit of money and power, the definition of success of the whole society has turned out to be the supremacy of the abundant money and power. While the concept of success brings infinite meet of psychological, people also pays a heavy price: long-term self-pressure produced all kinds of psychological problems, serious work task makes people’s body unbearable, the ignorance of communication between people causes tenuous people relationships, even affects the stability of the family harmony.This book is a new work of Arianna Huffington—the co-founder of the political blog “the Huffington post”, which belongs to the inspiration books. The author embarks from the personal experience, the field of scientific research of psychological, physiological, sports and sleep to lead and invite people together to think and redefine the value of success. Only look in the real demand of our heart, we can find our own true success.The functional translation theory is also known as “functional skopos theory”. In 1971, Reiss put forward “to achieve the purpose of the translation behavior” as a new mode of translation evaluation. Skopos theory focuses on translation as an activity with an aim or purpose, and on the intended addressee or audience of the translation. To translate means to produce a target text in a target setting for a target purpose and target addressees in target circumstances. In skopos theory, the status of the source text is lower than it is in equivalencebased theories of translation. Based on the characteristics of this book, in the specific translation process, the translator uses all possible translation skills, such as change the abstract to concrete, literal translation and free translation, in the same time, the translator tries the best to deal with the translation of culture-loaded word. Finally, the translator sums up some translation experience combing the translation experience.