Report On The Translation Of The TESCO Annual Report And Financial Statements,2015

With the increasing international trade and business activities,the importance of business English is accepted by growing numbers of people.The annual report of a enterprise,which belongs to business report,is significant to the company's development.The source text is excerpted from the TESCO Annual Report and Financial Statements,2015.And the full version was published on the website of Tesco PLC.According to Peter Newmark's classification on text types,the source text is in informative style.The author follows both communicative translation method and semantic translation method in the translation project,and discusses the difficulties during translation.The process of combination between translation theories and practice is stated from word level,sentence level and text level.There are two aims of the report.Firstly,the author wants to accumulate practical experience on translation,and getfamiliar with the general process of a project.Secondly,the authorwants to sum up the vocabulary,sentence and text features in an annual report,and then explore suitable translation methods from the translation of Tesco Group's annual report.