A Report On The C-E Translation Of Practical Technology On Hybrid Rice Seed Production

Practical Technology on Hybrid Rice Seed Production is the course-ware of 2014 Training Course on Hybrid Rice Seed Production Technology for Latin America, Caribbean and South Pacific Regions. It contains the integrated technology of F1 hybrid rich seed production, ranking from the choice of ecosystem to harvesting, processing and storage of seeds. As a text to instruct technology, the source text is a highly informative text featuring numerous information, a strong sense of instruction and is compiled in plain, simple, accurate and fluent language. It is brimmed with terminology on rice, pesticide and chemical fertilizer, four-character phrases, slogans, minor sentences and proverbs.Based on the translation practice of Practical Technology on Hybrid Rice Seed Production, this paper discusses the translation strategies and approaches from the perspective of Text Type Theory on the standing of the original text's linguistic features and received readers'acceptability. Focusing on target readers, this thesis claims that the translation of the informative text should apply the principles of equivalent translation and communicative translation to convey the original content accurately, as in the translation of terminology, phrase-like structures and sentences without subject. But to those texts that mean to arouse readers'resonance and response and to lead them, for instance, the translation of slogans and proverbs, the author advances employing equivalent creation and trans-editing to deliver the original content and spirit.