A Report On The Chinese Translation Of The Robots Articles In Science Daily

With the rapid development of science and technology and the improvement of living standard,robots have been developing quickly in recent years.They provide convenience for daily life.They have increasingly become a hot topic.The author of this report translated 15 English articles on robots from Science Daily website.Based on the translation,this report aims to analyze and summarize the translation problems and solution strategies.It consists of four parts--the translation task description,the process description,the case analysis and the conclusion.The first part describes the task background and features.The second part presents the translation process.The third part illustrates the problems,including the translation of proper nouns,vocabulary understanding,over use of colloquial expressions and translationese.Accordingly the translation strategies are discussed as follows: proper nouns are translated with the net information;the lexical meanings are chosen in the context and by means of verification online;concise and standardized expressions can be used to avoid the over use of colloquial expressions;the translationese can be avoided with the logical relationship among sentences and discourse.The last part summarizes the translator's drawbacks and the unsolved problems,which may be motivating for the future learning and translation job.Hopefully,the present report may be helpful for the future translation tasks concerned.