A Report On The Translation Of Stephen Curry-Rise Of The Star

This translation report is based on John Emerson's Stephen Curry-Rise of the Star,which records Curry‘s growth to basketball stardom.Translating this book can help us have a better understanding of the Curry's extraordinary life,give us insight into the NBA,and experience the joys of basketball.Meanwhile,we will also know the skills and strategies in translating this text.Stephen Curry-Rise of the Star is a biography of a sports figure,in which there are many descriptions of games;so the text has both the characteristics of a biography and a sports commentary.There are two characteristics of a biography,truthfulness and literariness.Under the guidance of Skopos theory,the author should respect the original text,so that the translation can be true to the original and be readable.Sports texts have many characteristics,like the use of proper nouns,acronyms,verbs and figures of speech.The author should pay more attention to these characteristics.In conclusion,the author should take into account these characteristics of biography and sports news while translating.This report includes five parts.The first part is introduction.Part two introduces translation process.Part three is about Skopos theory and text analysis.Part four is case study.Part five is the summary of the translation practice.Part four is the main part of the report,in which the author analyzes the cases using literal translation,addition,omission and other ways according to Skopos theory.