The Report On English-Chinese Translation Of Postpositive Attributives In MSC Documents

Maritime Safety Committee(MSC)is the most crucial technical institution of IMO and its meetings is the most important conferences in the maritime field of the world.The conference documents of the MSC maintain proposals and guidelines about maritime safety.As a powerful shipping nation,China needs to keep abreast of the important contents of the meetings in time.However,the documents contains many complex sentences,especially for massive attributive clauses,which is one of the difficulties for the translation.Based on the translation of the conference documents of MSC and the theory of Skopos,the report regards postpositive attributive as the research object to make a detailed study according to the specific situation in the translation process.Firstly the paper classifies postpositive attributive into four kinds,then it analyzes the characteristics of postpositive attributive in the documents of MSC.Combining the usage of the attributive in the Chinese language and the relevant theories and techniques,the report concludes four translation strategies of postpositive attributive:pre-attributive,sequential translation,inverted-order translation and combining translation.The results are as follows:(1)a simple postpositive attributives could apply the pre-attributive method,which adjusts the attributive prior to the modified word;(2)sequential translation is applicable to the postpositive attributive as it is a phrase;(3)under normal circumstance,a attributive clause that has a complex structure would use inverted-order translation to balance the whole sentence;(4)Non-restrictive attributive clause could apply combining translation to blend antecedent and attributive clause into a sentence.