A Practice Report On E-C Simulated Simultaneous Interpreting Of Tim Collins' Speech "Supply Chain And Operations-the Amazon Way"

Amazon is the biggest E-commerce company in America.The report focuses on the simulated simultaneous interpreting practice on the speech Supply Chain and Operations-the Amazon Way delivered by Tim Collins at the supply chain conference 2017.Through the activity,the author summarizes the interpreting tactics and skills,finds out her weaknesses and strengths as an interpreter,analyzes the difficulties encountered and offers corresponding countermeasures.Difficulties,like the inability of quick response,the low work memory capacity,and the inappropriate and disconnected expression are mainly discussed and addressed in the report.Meanwhile,interpreting strategies adopted such as anticipation,syntactic linearity,supplementation,simplification is analyzed.In the process of completing the task,the author realizes the improvement of psychological quality help to reduce the awkward silent moments and repetitions on the stage and enhance the ability of on-spot quick response.The fact that this report is completed on the basis of simulated simultaneous interpreting practice means that this environment of activity inevitably differs from that of the authentic interpreting situation,which may create limitation in the study and conclusion,while it is the author's intention that her experience affords help for future researchers working on simultaneous interpretation.