A Translation Report On World Economic Situation And Prospects 2015 (Chapter 1)

With the opening up to world, China has a closer connection with other countries. The connection involves in economy, politics, culture and so on, among which economy is of great importance. The development of economy of China is deeply affected by the world economy, which also stresses great influence on the world economy.The source text is an excerpt from the World Economic Situation and Prospect 2015. So far there is no official translated text. On the analysis of the current situation in 2014, the report makes objective prospection for trend of the world economy that has great reference value. Since some people who have keen interest in the world economy are non-English speakers, the translation of the report is of great importance. The report contains 12874 English words and the translated text contains 15919 Chinese words. It is complicated in structure, alternately written short and complex sentences with abbreviated words and professional phrases.This paper makes brief introduction on economic report. Economic report is a kind of practical writing that serves to predict future economic trends through comparative analysis of economic data. Reports of this kind are generally objective, professional and precise. This kind of text is unique in vocabulary, sentence structure and overall style, thus calling for proper translation theories to guide its translation in order to produce a faithful version and make sure the target readers could grasp the information from source text. The author makes annotation for the translation of the economic terms. She also makes adjustment within the translated text. For the paragraph translation, the author makes sentence structure adjustment to meet the reading habit of the target language readers.In light of the Skopos theory, this paper analyzes the Chinese translation of World Economic Situation and Prospect 2015(chapter 1). The thesis draws the conclusion that the Skopos theory can act as a guide for the translation of English economic forecasting report in future practices.