A Report On E-C Trans-Editing Of Soft News Of Huanqiu.com

Under the background of informatization,people try to obtain news across the world through a large variety of means.Culture,territory or language will not be the reasons that hold back our readers to know the world.Soft news,as a special category of news,enjoys high research value for its popularity and interestingness.This practice report discusses problems identified in trans-editing English soft news from news headlines,leads and bodies according to trans-editing requirements of Huanqiu.com.In news headlines,it is quite difficult to trans-edit attractive and concise headlines.In news leads,translators may encounter such problems as encountering difficulties in translating source websites,neglecting structure differences between source texts and target texts,information disorder in source texts.In news bodies,information redundancies and structure disorder are easy to arise.Based on the analysis of the problems mentioned above,the report puts forward corresponding solutions under the guidance of Newmark's communicative translation and the basis of requirements of Huanqiu.com.Under the contrastive analysis,the author proposes to adopt eye-catching expressions and refine relevant expressions to ensure attractiveness and conciseness in trans-editing news headlines,to adjust structure by abridgement and addition and reconstruct information by rewriting in trans-editing news leads,and to convert direct speech into indirect speech and reorganize structure in trans-editing news bodies.This practice report is expected to provide references for subsequent translators and enhance the overall qualities of E-C soft news trans-editing.