A Report On The Translation Of Healing The Shame That Binds You(Excerpts)

Healing the Shame That Binds You is a book about psychological information.The author is John Bradshaw,who has combined his exceptional skills as the role of counselor,author,management consultant,theologian,philosopher,and public speaker.Healing the Shame That Binds You,a New York Times Best Selling Book,has helped millions of people to identify their personal shame,understand the underlying reasons for it,address these root causes,and release themselves from the shame that binds them to their past failures.Therefore,psychology translation has immense practical significance as well.Learning psychology better is not only conducive to deepening people’s understanding of themselves,but also beneficial to adjusting and controlling their own actions.This is the reason why the translator chooses Healing the Shame That Binds You as the source text.I try to translate some excerpts from English into Chinese with the purpose to understand language characteristics of English psychology text and summarize the author’s opinions about English-Chinese psychology translation strategies.Following reading some psychological books in Chinese version,I set out to translate.In terms of neologism,sentence structure and special sentence elements,some real and online translation tools have been taken advantage of in order to develop translation smoothly.Proofreading is quite significant step during the whole process,which may further improve the translation quality.Thanks to my tutor,my classmates and friends,they help me to examine and revise my translation in punctuations,choices of words,vocabularies,typing errors,grammar and so on,so as to make my translation fluent,precise and professional.Through this project,on one hand,my translation skills may be improved and I have a great chance to learn more about psychology and translation theories and strategies.On the other hand,I will do my best to introduce excellent foreign psychology texts and translation strategies to exchange views on psychology with my friends at home and aboard.