A Report On The Translation Of They Cleared The Lane:The NBA's Black Pioneers(Excerpt)

This is a report on the translation of They Cleared the Lane: The NBA's Black Pioneers(Chapter 7-Chapter8).The book belongs to social text that focuses on social facts and text information.The two chapters introduce the changing status of black people from the development of black basketball players,and describe the experiences of players and coaches,reflecting the development of black basketball.Relevance Translation Theory regards optimal relevance as translator's main task to achieve communicative intention.From minimum effort and maximum contextual effect,this translation report analyzes term translation,slang translation,social context and context of situation,to find optimal relevance and achieve communicative intention.The translation report introduces the task from task background and task significance.Then the report introduces the translation preparation from analysis of text and theory.The case study is based on Relevance Translation Theory in order to analyze the translation process.In the end,the translator sums up the experience from the translation process and points out the unsolved problems.