A Report On The English-Chinese Translation Of Prepositions And Prepositional Phrases In The DP Operations

The translation practice report selects the documents specified by a shipping company for the ship's dynamic positioning operation procedures.This text mainly provides the ship management,operation and crew with various operation specifications and requirements.Prior to translating,the translator conducted a large number of pre-translation preparations including:borrowing professional books,querying dictionaries,and asking professionals.In the translation process,in addition to controlling the accuracy of maritime terms and translations,the translator found that there were a large number of prepositions and prepositional phrases in the source text.Therefore,how to translate such prepositions and prepositional phrases into authentic Chinese without losing the original language has always being the key point during the translation process.The translator regards the translation of prepositions and prepositional phrases as the research focus of this task.By using specific examples and certain translation strategies,the translator analyzed and translated English prepositions and prepositional phrases into authentic Chinese.This task,based on the Skopos theory and combined with case analysis and quotation of relevant references,finally adopted "equivalence translation of prepositions and prepositional phrases into Chinese prepositions,translating prepositions and prepositional phrases into verbs,adverbs,adjectives,conjunctions.Strategies such as omission and negation translation to analyze and translate prepositions and prepositional phrases in the DP Operations.This translation task is characterized by strong practicality and would provide reference for subsequent translation of similar texts.In addition,the study of prepositions in this text will also can provide reference for the future exploration of English prepositions and prepositional phrases..