A Report On The Translation Of Roadmap Of Integrated Intelligent Manufacturing In Steel Industry

As the policy of "Made in China 2025" is being carried out,China’s equipment manufacturing industry is stepping up to the middle-to-high level,which means that our industry needs the support and quality guarantee of steel materials.China issued the Adjustment and Upgrading Plan of Steel Industry 2016-2020,regarding "intelligent manufacturing"as the major task,gives guide for the transformation and upgrading of steel industry.Transformation and upgrading will take place in the future steel industry within the aspects of digitalization,informationization,networking and intelligence and finally build an intelligent steel industry.This source text comes from the EU steel technology platform and steel market development institution,which is novel and professional.This report will discuss how to produce a readable English text of steel industry that is easy to understand through the analysis of text,translation process and case analysis.The author chooses translation shifts of Catford’s theory as the theoretical guidance to analyze the text about steel industry.Translation is defined by Catford that it is the replacement of textual material in one language by equivalent textual material in another language.And translation shift means departures from formal correspondence in the process of going from the source language to the target language.In another word,translation must maintain the equivalence of content without considering the form consistency.In this report,the theoretical guidance will mainly help the author with some long and difficult sentences.With the translation practice and text analysis,the author chooses some typical examples to analyze.English for steel industry is a part of scientific text,which means it is the information-prominent text,and thus it stresses more on the meaning.The meaning of the text is more important compared with the form.While Catford’s shift theory is the shift between two languages with the hope to reproduce the meaning to the largest extent.With this translation practice and report,the author strengthens the understanding and analytical capabilities of the English for steel industry.It is hoped that,as a summary of translation practice,this report can provide some guidance and reference for the workers in steel industry as well as other translators.