Strategies Of Translating Attributive Clauses-a Report On Translation Of Eaarth(Excerpts)

Bill McKibben's book,Eaarth,focuses on the topic of climate change.With the relevant facts and data of climate change,the author has analyzed the causes of this phenomenon,and talked about the realistic issue of how human can survive in the new environment on Earth.The author has used plain words and sentences in the book with rich contents which can inspire us to ponder.And it has provided a different perspective for human to have a full understanding of climate change.This translation project report is on the translation of Chapter One,and a number of attributive clauses can be found in the source text,which has made it a great challenge for the translation.This paper is aimed at analyzing the methods of translating English attributive clauses.During translation,two major difficulties has appeared,which are structural transformation of attributive clauses and complicated attributive clauses in logic.The translator collects many attributive clauses and analyzes them in great details.According to the features of English attributive clauses and in order to achieve equivalent response from target readers as the original readers,the author decides to adopt Nida's functional equivalence theory as guidance and lays out corresponded strategies.In Nida's functional equivalence theory,he thinks that translating consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source language message,firstly in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style.The translator finds out some proper methods to solve the translation difficulties,such as proposing,division,conversion,and combination.This paper wraps up progress and defects,and is aimed at improving the translator's abilities theoretically and practically.