A Practice Report On The E-C Translation Of The Introduction Of Study Abroad From ACE Education Based On Skopos Theory

This is a practice report of translation.The report is mainly the reflection based on the translation of related materials for Chinese high school students going abroad to study.Nowadays,more and more parents send their children to go abroad to study when their children are in the junior high school.To study abroad tends to be more popular.More institutions for going abroad shows up.The source text is the text for studying abroad from the ACE education,these material can help the parents to know about related process,matters and attention of going abroad to study and the details to prepare before and after going abroad.The translator selects the introduction material of going abroad to study from ACE education to translate from English to Chinese so that after reading the material,the parents can get enough knowledge about going abroad.The source text of translation is characterized by lots of sentence structures,including attributive clauses,imperative sentences and long sentences.What the most difficult in the translation process is to let the sentence structure be close to the expression habit of Chinese readers.Directed by the skopos theory,the translator uses the way of preposition,post-position and conversion to change the attributive clause into Chinese.The translation strategy of adjustment of word order and addition of words are used in the imperative sentences.For the long sentences,the translator uses division and combination to get across.With the guidance of skopos theory and using of translation strategies above,the translation fits the way of Chinese expression in terms of effect of expression.The final version can allow the Chinese parents readers to get the specific information and requirements about the introduction materials of going abroad to study.Finally,the translator will get the perfect version of translation.