A Report On The Translation Of Required Writing

This report,which is based on the translation practice of the first to fifth chapters of the Required Writing written by English writer Philip Larkin.Connecting with Eugene Nida "functional equivalent theory",the purpose to write this report is to introduce the translation practice activity,to narrate the whole process and so as to raise some questions and seek for the proper solutions based on the translation practice.There is no Chinese version of this book,so the translator decides to conduct an analysis on the translation of 10,000 words selected from more than 40,000 words in her translation practice.The eventual purpose of the paper is to reproduce the cultural content of the original text in the target language and the target-text reader can know more about Philip Larkin's works.Required Writing basically take realism writing techniques and recorded the Larkin's writing background,mental activity.This paper is a translation report on Required Writing excerpt under the guidance of Eugene Nida's functional equivalence theory.With reference to the translation practice,it mainly discusses three main equivalences in the essay translation such as vocabulary equivalence,sentences equivalence and stylistic equivalence.The report has four chapters.The first chapter is a brief introduction of the essay in the whole.The second chapter introduces the process of this translation project,and its theoretical framework;The third chapter is case analysis puts stress on analyzing three major problems in excerpt,including the Equivalence of vocabulary,sentence and style with the help of Nida's Functional Equivalence then summarizes the shortcomings and experiences in this project in order to make progress in the future.