A Report On The Translation Of The Psychology Of Interpersonal Violence?Chapter Four?

This translation report is based on the translation practice whose source text is an excerpt from the 4th chapter of the book The Psychology of Interpersonal Violence.This chapter is about criminal violence,including non-lethal violent crimes,hate crimes,kidnapping and abduction,as well as arson;and it tells the readers the characteristics of offenders,the forms of crimes,and the motives for crimes.The source text can be categorized as an academic work of social sciences,which has scientific rigor,professional terms,and culture-loaded words,so the translation task is difficult.In the process of translation,the author employed various translation methods including literal translation and free translation,along with the translation techniques such as addition,conversion,decomposition,merging,inversion and reorganization.The purpose is to make the translation as faithful as possible to the source text and conforms to Chinese expression rules.This report is comprised of four parts: The first part is the description of the translation task,which mainly deals with the source of the original text,the introduction of the book,the profile of the author,and the significance of selecting this theme.The second part is the description of the translation process,which covers the preparation before translation,the key points and difficulties in translation,and the review,polishing,and finalization after translation.The third part is the translation case analysis,which highlights the key troubles and their solutions from lexical,syntactic,discourse and cultural aspects.The fourth part is the summary of translation practice.The author concludes the report with the translation experience,and puts forward some translation suggestions so as to improve the translation skills.