Translation Strategies To Reproduce Logic Of Science And Technology Text

Although people from different language background share common logical thinking in a way,how to express the logic is quite different.The differences between English and Chinese in expressing the same thinking process or logic are reflected in their selected words,expressions,language styles.Translation is a language activity that uses language to demonstrate the linguistic logic and thinking logic of the original text.The language of each country is an extremely complex symbolic system.As people from different countries live in various environments with different customs,social systems and religious beliefs,they have different understandings of the objective world.This leads to a huge difference in terms of the way in which different languages express themselves,which brings a certain difficulty to translation activity.The second chapter of the book Environmental Engineering was taken as an example to illustrate translation strategies adopted to reproduce the logic of source text.After detailed case analysis,the following conclusions are drawn:in the process of science and technology text translation,conversion between languages not only means the transformation of the words,but also means the reproduction of the internal logic of source text.The translator has to consider the logical differences between them,carry out proper logical reorganization in translation,add appropriate logical conjunctions to reproduce the logical relations in the target text,and select appropriate translation strategies to make the translation explicit.Only when logical thinking is properly reproduced in target text,can the original information be accurately conveyed so as to improve quality of the translation.