A Translation Project Report On The Future Of Consumer Society:Prospects For Sustainability In The New Economy (Chapter 3)

This is a translation project report on The Future of Consumer Society:Prospects for Sustainability in the New Economy,of which Chapter 3 “The Empty Promise of the Sharing Economy” is the source text.The source text mainly discusses the history and the definition of the sharing economy and examines the current performance of the sharing economy from three dimensions of sustainability,which are social,environmental,and economic sustainability.The source text is objective,concise,logical and powerful.During translation,the major difficulties lie in the translation of the adjectives,abstract nouns and metaphors.Under the guidance of the three rules of the skopos theory,correspondent translation methods and skills are adopted in order to be maximally faithful to the source text and ensure the readability and coherence of the target text.For the translation of adjectives,the translator mainly adopts three translation skills: choice of words,conversion and division;for the translation of abstract nouns,translation skills employed are conversion,concretization and extension;for the translation of metaphors,the translator mainly uses literal translation with annotation and free translation.And the translator has also gained some experiences and lessons through this translation practice.