Translation Report On Literature In The Elementary School (Excerpts) From The Perspective Of Functional Equivalence

Literature in the Elementary School, an historic book about literature education in school, is the source text of this translation report. Based on the translation of parts of this book, including the preface, Chapter 1 to 6 and Chapter 10 to 12, this report analyzed translation equivalence achieved at vocabulary, sentence, discourse and stylistic level in light of "functional equivalence" by Eugene Nida. This report is composed of four parts with the former two parts focusing on the introduction of the source text and the translation process of the writer. Case study, which mainly analyzes how to apply functional equivalence in translation practice in order to achieve ideal bilingual transform, domains the report. Practice conclusion mainly illustrates the problems that translator met in the practice and the inspirations that the translator obtained during the translation process.