A Report On The Translation Of All New Square Foot Gardening

In such a hectic and materialistic world,people are more likely to look forward to gardening so as to entertain life.Gardening books have sprung up on book market in recent years.With the development of globalization,many presses in China have introduced popular foreign gardening books.This report is based on the translation of All New Square Foot Gardening,which is a popular American gardening book.According to Reiss's theory of text typology,this book could be generally identified as a combination of informative text and expressive text.The translator applies corresponding translation strategies on the basis of the predetermined function of the source text in specific context so as to meet target readers' reading habit.Translation strategies like "adjusting the order of sentence elements","adding conjunctions to strengthen logic" and "converting part of speech" are taken in the translation of informative text,functioning to transmit referential content;translation strategies like "corresponding to the structure of subtitles","corresponding to culture-loaded phrases","corresponding to parallel structures" and "adding adjectives to transmit the author's attitude" are taken to transmit aesthetic form.The translation report includes four chapters.Chapter one introduces the translation task,including the background information,translation process and significance and structure of the report.Chapter two introduces Reiss's theory of typology that guides the translation process,analysis and writing of the report,and analyzes the features of the source text.Chapter three is the main part of the report,in which the translator makes case analysis according to text types.Chapter four is the conclusion of this report.The translator hopes to share useful experience for those who are committed to translation of gardening books through analyzing features of source text and translation strategies.