The Translation Report Of China Naval Modernization: Implications For U.S.Navy Capabilities-Background And Issues For Congress

The original text of this report excerpts from China Naval Modernization:Implications for U.S.Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress,which is a report made by US Congress.The report detailedly introduced that China is building a modern and regionally powerful navy with a limited but growing capability for conducting operations beyond China’s near-seas region.This report provides background information and issues for Congress on China’s naval modernization effort and its implications for U.S.Navy capabilities for the Congress.The original text of the project is about 15,000 words.It includes the achievement of China naval modernization and its implications for U.S.navy capabilities.Besides,it comes up with the issue for Congress that how to cope with China naval modernization.The original text is a military report by Congress that has some characteristics.First,it is strongly professional in its large amounts of military(navy and air force)terminologies,so it becomes a great challenge for the translator.Second,the language is formal in style,using large amounts of complex sentences and modifiers,so translator needs to analyze the difference between Chinese and English and highlight their characteristics.The original text used China’s Military Strategies,so it comes to the question of back translation.The translator needs to ponder deeply how to deal with this question.When translating the terminologies,the translator mainly used literal translation and free translation with the help of much online information.When dealing with long sentences,the translator mainly used “reinventing sentence structure”,“semantic variation” and so on,which is in order to make the translation more close to regularityIn this translation report,there are introduction,pre-translation preparation,case analysis and conclusion.The translator believes that the translation will arouse the consciousness of marine territory and provide some reference to the translation task of the same style.