| Since the 21 st century, the world has entered the information era. The development of information technology industry brings profound reform to the production and lifestyle of human beings, and it has become one of the main industries promoting the national economic development. The attention paid by people to information technology industry makes IT news become an indispensable part of the news section in the various media. Hence, the importance of the research on translating IT news into Chinese for ordinary readers is significant.IT is the general term of the various technologies adopted to manage and handle information. IT news is to deliver the newest message about information technology. It takes the introduction of the various IT products including computers and telecommunication as the core,in addition to it is also involved with new technologies and new applications. Besides, it provides the product price, market information, product’ evaluation and shopping guide information. The essays of IT news have their distinctive literary structures and features with many professional terms, relatively flexible syntactic structure, strong logic and paying particular attention to popularity and interest of language. The report takes the domestic and foreign modern translation theories for reference, and it is combined with a large number of materials and examples in translation practice to conduct an in-depth exploration on the translation practice of essays concerning IT news.The translation report is established on extracting the IT news section of the foreign famous science and technology websites ZDNet. And the contents concern the popularization of new IT products, introduction of latest technologies, and popularization of usage methods of IT products, and prospect of IT science and technology in the future. At present, the English news in the websites has no corresponding Chinese version. The report firstly collects numbers of IT news, then analyzes the language features of IT news and finally the diction, syntactic and discourse features of IT news are summarized. Afterwards, the retrospect and analysis are conducted towards text typology theory put forward by Reiss and Newmark, and further determine the text types of IT news and discuss the translation principles and translation approaches which shall be used appropriately for the text type. |
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