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A Reflective Research Report On The E-C Translation Of Tesla Company Profiles

Posted on:2017-05-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330485456727Subject:English translation
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This report is based on Tesla Company Profiles. Founded in 2003, Tesla was headquartered in Silicon Valley. Committed to accelerate sustainable mobility in the world, Tesla has manufactured electric vehicles by most innovative technologies. This text is mainly about company profiles, which involving many terminologies in automobile industry. Through transmitting the basic information, a company profile aims at establishing a good image to further the cooperation with other companies, as well as promoting its products to target readers.In translating process, the translator looked up materials relating to the text so as to ensure the accuracy of the translation. According to some problems encountered in translation, including non-finite verbs, long and difficult sentences and large quantities of attributive clauses, the translator has taken reconstruction, inversion, division and other methods in specific cases. In addition, there exist differences between the Chinese and English company profiles due to the means of expression. For example, the Chinese company profiles generally use complicated words and lots of run-on sentences. However, the English ones take concise words and rigorous structures. Thus, based on the features of source text, the translator should ensure the accuracy of the target text in the proper Chinese way.Finally, realizing the importance of being familiar with the knowledge and culture of automobile industry, and using translation skills flexibly, the translator hopes that the report can benefit others from translating similar texts concerning the company profiles of automobile industry.
Keywords/Search Tags:company profiles, terminologies in automobile industry, reconstruction, inversion, division
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