A Report On The Translation Of Bubbles,Booms And Busts-the Rise And Fall Of Financial Assets

With the development of economic globalization,finance plays an increasingly important role in the world.Some financial works abroad will contribute to further understanding of the international financial situation.The translation of financial texts has gained wide attention.The source text of this translation practice is excerpted from Bubbles,Booms and Busts—The Rise and Fall of Financial Assets that is written by Donald Rapp.The ideas and contents of this book are rich and unique,for it covers several disciplines containing behavioral finance,psychology and sociology.This report is aimed at employing some methods to deal with difficulties in financial text.Moreover,the translation is supposed to provide a medium for Chinese readers to know much information about the world economy.First of all,this report has an overall analysis of the text type and linguistic features.According to the text type proposed by Katharina Reiss,the source text belongs to an informative text featuring objectiveness,logicality and authenticity.It aims to disseminate fact and information,therefore,Peter Newark's communicative translation is adopted.This translation strategy stresses reader-focused and intends to produce the same effect on its readers as that obtained on the readers of the original text.The core part falls on the third chapter that is the translation difficulties and methods.It summarizes some difficulties reflecting in the translation of terminologies,culture-loaded words,long complex sentences and sentences with passive voice.On the basis of translation difficulties,translation methods are introduced at lexical level and syntactic level.At lexical level,amplification,diction and literal translation with annotation are applied while change of voices,sentence division and restructuring are taken at syntactical level.This report,however,looks forward to providing practical references for the future translation.