A Report On Translation Of The Technical Proposal Of A Bidding Document

In modern market,translation of bidding documents plays a big role.This report explains the process of translation of technical proposal,an indispensable part of a bidding document.Before translation,preparation work must be done.First,the translator did extensive reading of the text to get a thorough understanding of it.Since there are many special terms in the original text,the translator searched some vocabularies on the internet,helping the translator to get the right words in translation.After analyzing the text,features were summarized.As a result;Newmark's text typology was chosen as the guiding theory in practice.According to the theory,communicative translation method was used as the first choice.In addition,the report explains the.main difficulties during translation and shows the way to dealt with that.This report is divided into five parts.Chapter One is an introduction which tells the background and the content of the original text.Chapter Two analyzes the features of bidding documents written in Chinese and English.Chapter Three explains Newmark's theory of text type,communicative translation and the guiding principle in practice.Chapter Four explains the difficulties in translation and the solutions and shows how to do proofreading.Chapter five is a summary.The writer hopes to offer suggestions to other translators through this report,helping others to learn the contents of bidding documents and the features of different parts in the documents.The writer hopes as well that the analysis of applying communicative translation here will give other translators a guidance when doing their work.