A Report On The Translation Of Motorcycle Service Manual Of Kawasaki KX250F Motorcycle(Excerpt)

This is a translation practice report.The project text is taken as part of the Kawasaki KX250 F Motorcycle Maintenance Service Manual.With the more and more foreign industrial products coming to China,a large number of maintenance manuals need to be translated in order to use and maintain those products,which provides an irreplaceable role in our lives.This report analyzes the characteristics of the project text.Kawasaki KX250 F motorcycle maintenance service manual as a science and technology text,especially the information text,its function is to convey the information to the reader accurately and objectively.Therefore,this report analyzes the characteristics of the project text from the words,sentence patterns,and discourse.Meanwhile,this report adopts the functional translation theory,especially the Skopostheorie(skopos theory)as a guiding theory to select the appropriate translation method for the text.Through the analysis,author knows the purpose of translation is to convey the accurate information to the reader.The purpose determines the translation methods.According to the general purpose,the author recommends that the translator should consider the text characteristics,and adopt the appropriate strategies in translation.And the author offers case analysis from the perspective of words,sentence patterns and discourse so as to explain the guidance of skopos theory for translation texts.The author sums up the relevant experience and lessons,and gets a more profound understanding of the guidance of skopos theory for translation texts,and the combination of theory and practice makes a better translation.