A Report On The Translation Of Youth Character Strengths,Peer Victimization,and Well-Being:Understanding Associations Between Positive Traits,Social Experiences,and Positive Psychological Outcomes (Chapter Three And Chapter Four)

Youth Character Strengths, Peer Victimization, and Well-Being is a doctoral thesis that studies how the environment influences the activity of a brain through computer models, pharmacological manipulation, deep brain stimulation, electroence phalography and computational models of adaptive action selection and reinforcement learning.This research fills the gap of research in this field in China,and it has not been translated into Chinese. Therefore a Chinese translation of this paper would be a contribution to the study of youth psychology.This report has four parts. The first is a general introduction to the whole translation project, including the background, purpose and significance. The second part gives an account of the author, source text, including text type and linguistic features of the source text. The third part is an overall review on the translating process and the translating difficulties experienced by the translator and the solutions used to solve the problems It begins with an introduction to Reiss' s text typology theory and the Skopos theory, which are adopted as a guiding theory for this translation project. The major translation difficulties the translator has experienced are professional terms and long and complex sentences. For the terms that have established Chinese translation, the translator used those existing translations, and for those terms that has no existing Chinese equivalents, the translator gives a literal rendering of the terms.The fourth part is a summary of the lesson the translator learntand the problems remain unsolved.