A Report On The Translation Of Food Politics: What Everyone Needs To Know(Extracts)

The translation material is selected from Chapter One and Chapter Ten of Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, a book of Robert Paarlberg, who is an American scholar of food politics. Food Politics not only carefully examines and explains the important issues on current global food landscape but also gives lots of valuable advice for reference, which helps people improve their understanding of food politics.The translation report includes a description of translation material, translation process, analysis of translation cases and a summary of this translation practice. The first part gives a brief introduction to translation material and the author. Chapter One of the book provides an overview of food politics, including its definition, quality, actors and development. Chapter Ten explores the importance of agriculture in food politics. Detailed description of the relationship among agriculture, environment and farm animals is given in this chapter by means of questions and answers. Robert Paarlberg, an American writer, is a leading authority on food politics and his research focuses on the policy of global agriculture and environment. Meanwhile, he has published several books on agriculture. The second part is translation process during which the translator firstly reads the text and confirms its style; and then more attention is paid to the unification of numerous specialized terminologies, management of typical sentences and the grasp of logical coherence; finally, the translator achieves the final version after checking and modifying the translated text. The third part provides specific analysis of the selected cases in respect of lexical terms, syntax, text and style, summarizing the difficulties and thoughts of the translation. In the final part, after minutely summarizing the experiences and reflections in translation, the translator realizes that serious attitudes and spirit of bearing hardships are essential parts of translation work. At the same time, large amounts of practices of translation are necessary for being a qualified translator.