A Report On Translation Of A General Theory Of Love

The thesis is a report on the translation of the book entitled A General Theory of Love(2008), coauthored by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon(clinical professors and psychologists, working at the University of California). The book explains the science of human emotional problems and biological psychiatry and tells us what the structure of brain is and how love generated in our brain.The thesis consists altogether five chapters. Chapter 1 describes the background and significance of the translation task, the introduction of the source text, and the structure of the thesis, the analysis the features of the source text. Chapter 2 provides a brief description of the three stages of the translation process--preparation before translation, the translating process and after translation. Chapter 3 reviews the Skopos theory which is the theoretical basis for the translation, and its application to the present translation task. Chapter 4 addresses the difficulties and solutions in translation from two aspects: lexical level which includes Transliteration and liberal translation and syntactic level which includes amplification and splitting.And chapter 5 makes a conclusion and points out the unsolved problems.