The Application Of Domestication Strategy In Translation And Translation Refinement Translation Report Of Are You An Ostrich Or A Llama?(Reviews And Guest Service Part)

The book,Are You an Ostrich or a Llama,is about hotel marketing and management with easy language and humorous writing style.It is an informative text with some characteristics of expressive text and operative text.In order to get fluent,idiomatic and beautiful translated version in Chinese,the author of this report adopted domestication strategy in translation,put the target language and target readers at the first place,and polished and refined the translation to get the final version.This translation study is on the translation of the reviews and guest service part of this book,which was accomplished by the author.Specific translation techniques in English-Chinese translation and translation refinement were summarized in this report in terms of word,sentence and paragraph: omission,amplification,and conversion in word translation and refinement;division,combination,shifting,and rewriting in sentence translation and refinement;restructuring and adaptation in paragraph translation and refinement.Comparative methods are used in this translation study.Comparison of the source text and the target text was made from several aspects such as syntactic structure,logical order,and connection.Comparison of the first draft and the final version showed in details the necessity of domestication strategy and translation refinement.A good translation must have been revised many times,and refinement is a very important step.Translation and translation refinement under the guidance of domestication strategy would increase the readability of the translated version,and would make it complying with the target language rules.The author of this report hopes that this report could provide some hints and enlightenment in English-Chinese translation and refinement for its readers.