A Translation Project Report Of Meetings, Expositions, Events & Conventions:An Introduction To The Industry (Chapter 4)

Meeting and convention industry, as an emerging service industry, enjoys a more and more important role. Translation of materials related with meeting and convention industry will promote the industrial development and investment. The chosen translation material, Chapter 4-Meeting and Convention Venues from Meetings, Expositions, Events & Conventions:An Introduction to the Industry, gives a detailed introduction to various types of meeting venues, examines relevant issues and predicts the future trend of the industry. The source-language text is expository with many professional expressions which are difficult to understand. In view of the characteristics of the original text and the requirements of source text author, initiator of translation and target reader, the writer of this report chooses Nord’s "Function Plus Loyalty" principle as the theoretical guidance, for it pays attention to interests of all parties concerning the translation thus to conciliate the "interpersonal relations". The third part of this report illustrates the application of the theory in vocabulary translation, sentence translation, paragraph translation and text translation. Through the translation practice, the writer draws the following conclusion:firstly, great attention shall be paid to preparation before the translation; secondly, appropriate translation strategies should be chosen based on characteristics of the text; lastly, the interests of concerning parties should be borne in mind to produce the most satisfactory translation.