A Practice Report On The E-C Translation Of The School For Good And Evil From The Perspective Of Manipulation

This article is a translation report. The writer is commissioned by the Beijing 21 st Century Press to translate The School for Good and Evil, a famous magic novel for children written by the American writer Soman Chainani, to Chinese. This translation report chooses Chapter 21 Trial by Tale, Chapter 22 Nemesis Dreams and Chapter 30 Never After as the analysis material to review the translation process, sort out the problems encountered during the translation and summarize the author’s sentiment. By the analysis of the translation material, the author means to explore the translation principals that should be followed in children literature.This translation report consists of four parts, namely, the introduction of translation task, the description of translation process, the analysis of translation cases and the summary of translation practice. The first part briefly introduces the background of translation task, the nature of the text and the translation requirements. The second part fully describes the preparation and process of translation. Guided by the principle of translation manipulation, in the third part, the author uses Lefever’s Manipulation Theory from the aspects of improvement, handling and distortion to manipulate both the original text and the translation in order to make the translation version more suitable for children aged between 8 and 12. The fourth part summarizes the post-translation effect, the post-translation reflection and enlightenment in later translation practice and mainly explore how the translator should hold their own subjective position and better meet the specific target reader groups.