Practical Report On English-Chinese Translation Of Medical Meteorology Works "Global Climate Change And Public Health" (Chapter 1 And 2)

Medical meteorology,belonging to the edge discipline and mainly studying on the impact of weather and climate on human health,is an interdisciplinary discipline between medical science and meteorology.Popular science mainly popularizes scientific knowledge and improves the public’s scientific literacy.This report examines Chapter One and Two of Global Climate Change and Public Health by Kent E.Pinkerton and William N.Rom.The source text is popular science in medical meteorology,and introduces knowledge and development of global climate change and public health.The author of this report discussed and concluded the problems during translation,such as the translation of medical meteorology vocabulary,tone and coherence.The author also proposed relative translation skills from certain perspectives,including the words,sentences and discourse.Based on the practice,translation skills are summarized to make contribution to the translation and research of medical meteorology texts.The medical meteorology text also raises public awareness about effects of climate change on health.