The Application Of The Sentence Drive Principle In English-Chinese Simultaneous Interpretation At The Electronic Product Launch Conference

With the continual development of society and technology,more and more electronic products have appeared in people's daily life;people are increasingly concerned with the release of electronic products which has become a world-famous annual event.The simultaneous interpretation of these events has already captured people's attention.Simultaneous interpretation of electronic product launches provides a first-hand information for people to refer to,which is of crucial importance.Guided by one of the basic principles of simultaneous interpretation called syntactic linearity,this thesis takes several speeches as the basis and analyzes the syntactic linearity problems in the simultaneous interpretation practice of these materials.Five kinds of difficulties are investigated: relatives,prepositions and prepositional phrases,passive language,sentences containing “It” as formal subjects and comparative degree.Professional interpreters' solutions to these difficulties are analyzed and then six methods are summarized: amplification,repetition,prediction,omission,conversion and segmentation.These methods are then used to direct the simultaneous interpretation practice of Google Product Launch in 2016 which is full of uncommon science and technology vocabulary.The speech of the launch is conducted with a fast speed and a little accent.This practice has proved that these methods are very effective to complete the more difficult and challenging task of simultaneous interpretation of electronic product launches;thus the quality and efficiency of simultaneous interpretation can be greatly improved.