The Report On The Translation Of Chapter Ⅲ, Part Ⅲ Of “Developing Translation Competence”

Under the recommendation of the tutor, the translator chose the famous translation teaching and the theoretical work by Christina Schaffner and Beverly Adab as the translation practice report. The book is an academic which defines, builds, and assesses the translation ability, including many translation concepts and some points of view of the international academic authorities. This work introduces the new research results of the translation ability of the European scholars, and discusses the factors which consist of translation ability. In addition, the book also provides a good reference for improving the translation capability and improving the translation theory.The content that the translator undertakes is: chapter 3 Part Ill: Assessing Translation Competence. The third part of the content, namely the Translation task“Beverly Adab Evaluating Translation Competence”. This chapter combines the studies of translation competence assessment. According to Peter newmark’s text typology and the corresponding translation methods, we can refer that this book belongs to the domain of social sciences, namely the information class text primarily,also the characteristics of expressive texts. The author uses the words accurately, and use the long and complicated structures, and the form are more diverse; Besides, the work has strong professional background and contains a large number of background knowledge in the field of history. Strive to fidelity and accuracy of the translation task,according to functional equivalence theory, the use of literal translation is given priority to, free translation is used as the complementary translation method so as to achieve the functional equivalence in lexical, syntactic and textual aspects.This translation practice report consists of five parts, the first part is a macro introduction about this translation task, which introduces the translation task and the stylist features, which make the readers better grasp the central idea of the translation practice report. Then it comes to the second part, which mainly introduces the process of translation and preparations for the translation task, and the translation preparations including reading text, the selection of translation tools, and the translation processmainly refers to the process of analysis, expression and review. The third part mainly talks about the theoretical basis of the translation practice report, including the translation theory and strategy. As for theory of translation, the translation practice report mainly adopts the text typology, the text is divided into the informational text,expressive text, and vocative text, according to the different characteristics of text,different methods and strategies are adopted. Besides, the Eugene Nida’s functional equivalence theory is also used, namely use the most appropriate, natural and equivalent language style to reproduce the source language information. With the combination of theory and practice, it will make the translation practice report content more rich and credible. In the fourth part, the translator mainly adopts some typical cases in the appendix and the corresponding theoretical methods from the lexical,syntax, textual levels, including the free translation, conversion of parts of speech,polysemy, the translation of long and difficult sentences, reverse translation, the transform from the passive voice into the active voice as well as the translation of the attributive clauses. In the last part of the translation practice, the translator summarizes the full text, and makes a reflection on the overall translation practice,thus will help to improve the translation ability.This translation report may bring about a better understanding of the academic work. The translator’s competence has also been improved through the translation practice. The translator hopes that it will make the author’s academic work and viewpoints better known by more Chinese readers.