A Report On E-C Translation Of HGE Corporate Profile

This report analyzes the E-C translation of HGE Corporate Profile,which includes four main parts: futuristic opportunities,company overview,market strategies and financial condition.The corporate profile features a plain and accurate style but complicated and long sentences.Under the framework of the Adaptation Theory,translation,as a kind of language activity,is a dynamic adaptation process with regard to contextual correlates and structural objects under different degrees of consciousness.In translating the corporate profile,the translator must adapt dynamically to contextual correlates and structural objects so that the target text can meet the target readers' reading habits.Accordingly,under the guidance of the Adaptation Theory and based on the differences between Chinese and English corporate profiles,the report intends to explore E-C translation methods of corporate profiles from the perspective of contextual correlates of adaptability and structural objects of adaptability.In terms of contextual correlates of adaptability,the author discusses linguistic and communicative contexts,and with respect to structural objects of adaptability,the author mainly focuses on structural objects at the lexical and syntactical levels.This report is composed of five chapters.In Chapter 1,the author presents the translation task with regard to its background information,objective and significance,and translation process.In Chapter 2,the author elaborates the Adaptation Theory and explains adaptation in translation.In Chapter 3,the author analyzes the features of the source text.Then,the author,through the collection of parallel texts,further conducts a comparative analysis of English and Chinese corporate profiles to render a more appropriate target text.In Chapter 4,the author provides E-C translation methods of corporate profiles with regard to structural objects of adaptability and contextual correlates of adaptability and also elaborately analyzes cases the author encountered in the translation.Lastly,in Chapter 5,the author summarizes the analysis and limitations.