A Project Report On The Translation Of American CDA Training Courses

Nowadays, with the globalization of politics, economy and culture and the further integration of the whole world, translation, as a cross-cultural activity has got universal attention of various disciplines. As an important component of Sino-foreign exchanges, educational translation also draws much attention from researchers both at home and abroad.It is under such circumstances that this translation report comes into being.The translation of American CDA Training Courses is served as the study object of this report. Under the guidance of the text typology theory, it first analyzes the translation project's text function, then determines its text type and finally selects the corresponding translation strategy and specific translation methods. After a thorough analysis of the major issues and difficulties encountered during the translation process, the writer tries to take such methods as literal translation, literal translation with explanation, addition, division, combination, voice transformation and reconstruction to resolve these difficulties, namely, terms, words with special meanings, rhetoric and long and difficult sentences. Hopefully, this report can provide some pieces of advice for the translation of educational texts and the writer's translation ability can be improved through practice.