| In modern world where the speed of information transmission is getting faster,more and more people tend to learn what are happening in the world through the internet. Facing great amount of news, news translators need to select appropriate news according to the requirements of their news organizations andthen trans-edit thenews they have selected to makenews transmission more effective.This practice report discusses problems identified in the process of trans-editing Englishsoft news forlook.huanqiu.com. In news selecting, it is quite difficult to find appropriate and unpublished news due to fierce competition in media industry.In news trans-editing, translators may encounter problems in the source text of English soft news such as lack of eye-catching headlines, semantic repetition, logic disorder and overuse of direct speech. And in news proofreading, problems found in the target text aredisorder of paragraphs and sentencesand lack of cohesive devices.Based on the analysis of the problems mentioned above, the report puts forward corresponding solutions under the guidance of Gatekeeping theory. When selecting English soft news, translators should firstly browseits main idea to search appropriate news for look.huanqiu.com and then use search engines to find unpublished news. When trans-editingsource text, translators can adopt such methods as adding eye-catching words in headlines, deleting repeated sentences, reorganizing information units and transforming direct speech into indirect speech. When proofreading target text, translators need to rearrangethe order of paragraphs and sentences and add cohesive devices. It is hoped that the findings of this report can help translators in their E-C soft news trans-editing. |
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