A Translation Report On The Service Manual Of Panasonic KV-S5055C High Speed Color Scanner

This paper is an English-Chinese translation report on the Service Manual of Panasonic KV-S5055C High Speed Color Scanner, which belongs to the category of instrument and equipment specification. This kind of informative scientific and technical text plays a crucial role in our daily life. Therefore, a study on the translation of the instrument and equipment specifications is of great significance in promoting the spread and exchange of scientific and technical information.Taking the translation project of the Service Manual of Panasonic KV-S5055C High Speed Color Scanner as a case study, this report summarizes the language features of the source text, lists the key points and difficulties and sketches out the implementation process of the whole project. Under the comprehensive consideration of meeting the needs of the client, the literacy and reading habit of the readership as well as the stylistic features of manuals, the author resorts to suitable translation strategies and principles so as to strive for a good translation version. Through the concrete analysis of lexical, syntactical and textual cases of this manual and the resolution of difficulties during translation, this report probes into the translation strategies and principles in translating instrument and equipment specification. Additionally, in the retrospection of the gain and loss, the experience and lessons learned from this project, this paper is also meant to come up with some indications and suggestions for translators, clients and even the whole industry involving in this domain, hoping to offer some experience and reference for the future manual translation of electronic products.