A Translation Report On Study Of Deng Xiaoping's Theory On Social Construction(Section Two,Chapter One)

This is a translation report on Study of Deng Xiaoping's Theory on Social Construction(Section Two,Chapter One).The source text is a part of the supervisor's translation project,and the selected section is The Negative Influence on China's Social Construction of Soviet Model's Disadvantages and the Great Cultural Revolution,which mainly introduces one of the four social historical backgrounds of Deng Xiaoping's Theory on social construction.This source text is a typical political text,which has its own characteristics in specialized words and expressive structure.So the faithful translation is rather demanding.The translator chooses the German Skopos Theory as the guidance of the translation practice by analyzing the text's seriousness,contemporaneity and Chinese characteristics.Based on the problems encountered in the process of translation,the translator explores and summarizes proper translation methods,makes a summary of the translation report and shares her reflections,enlightenment and thoughts with the readers.The report consists of four parts.The first part is an introduction to the translation background,theory and significance.The second part describes the content and stylistic feature of the source text.The third part is case study,which is the main body of the report,introduces the difficult points of the translation,and shares some feasible translation methods.The paper pays attention to the analysis at lexical and syntactical levels,including category words,abbreviations,political terms,four-character words,long sentences and no-subject sentences.The fourth part summarizes the experiences and lessons acquired from the translation and the problems to be solved.Based on the translation of source text,the translator has collected some examples from the source text and analyzed them so as to explore the translation methods of political essays.On the one hand,the translator hopes to improve her translation skill in political documents from this program,which will obviously turn out to be very useful for the future translation work;on the other hand,the translator also hopes to share with the readers her shallow ideas and understanding of political text's translation,which will provide a little bit of reference for the translation of the same kind of text.