A Translation Report On The Coca-cola Company 2014 Annual Report (Excerpt From Part ?)

An annual report of a listed company is a comprehensive discussion and an official disclosure of the management,financial condition,results of operations of this company within one year.It's the most efficient way for the public to get to know the organization,business and financial performance of a company.The source text of this translation report is The Coca-Cola Company 2014 Annual Report(Excerpt from Part II)which covers a great deal of information about business,operation,assets,organization,financial condition,etc.and is considered a typical business text.Based on source text and Newmark's theory on text typology and functional classification,this translation report contains an analysis of text features of the annual report and some translation skills to deal with them.The source text has a large amount of tables,numbers,terminologies and complex sentences,which make translation work much more complicated.To tackle these problems,the author decided to use some translation methods,including the combination of literal and free translation in dealing with terminologies,and conversion,amplification and omission,sentence segmentation and adjustments of word order when facing long and complex sentences.By carefully choosing typical examples and giving the reasons what makes the final translation version,the author reveals the significance of these translation skills in the main part of this report.