A Translation Project Report On Elon Musk: Tesla, Space X, And The Quest For A Fantastic Future(Chapters 4 & 5)

With great changes that science and technology have brought about to the world, more and more people begin to become interested in the scientific development and the geniuses behind it. As another American legendary figure emergingafter Steve Jobs, Elon Musk has drawn much attention from all over the world with his fantastic life experiences. His biography Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future written by Ashlee Vance has grabbed widespread attention even before its publication.Handling the translation project about Chapters 4 and 5 of this remarkable book, this report analyzes the difficulties and relevant solutions in the translation process under the guidance of Nida's functional equivalence theory. The translator first gives a brief introduction to the project, as well as to the author Ashlee Vance and main content of the source text. Then the functional equivalence is illustrated as the guiding principle for this project. Last but not least, the translator focuses on translation difficulties as how to translate proper nouns and colloquial languages, and then elaborates the corresponding approaches respectively.This report sums up the authenticity and literariness, features of biography, and presents an exhaustive analysis of the translation process about this genre. The translator hopes that the project can be used as reference for the future English-Chinese translation practice about biography.