A Practice Report On The English-Chinese Translation Of Urban Economics And Urban Policy:Challenging Conventional Policy Wisdom(Chapter Four)

The translator selected the fourth chapter of Urban Economics and Urban Policy:Challenging Conventional Policy Wisdom as the source text.The source text is a typical academic paper in economics,which is characterized by professionalism,conciseness and logicality.From the perspective of linguistic features,there are many economic terms,proper nouns and pronounces.From the perspective of textual structure,there are many long sentences which are interconnected in the discourse,and the structure of the source text is very clear.In the process of translation,the main problems that the translator encounters are the translation of vocabularies(including pronouns and economic terms),long sentences and discourses.In the translation practice,the translator adopts the three principles of Skopos Theory as the translation theory to guide the analysis of the translation problems.Under the guidance of skopos principle,the translator adopts the translation techniques such as omission and restoration to solve the problem of pronoun translation.Under the guidance of fidelity principle,the translator adopts the ways of reading economic parallel texts and searching information on the Internet to solve the translation problems of economic terms,so as to make them faithful to the original text.And under the guidance of coherence principle,the translator solves the translation problem of long sentences by division,inversion and conversion,so as to make the translated text intratexual coherent.In addition,under the guidance of coherence principle,the problem of discourse translation can also be solved by inversion.Through this translation practice,the translator has accumulated the relevant experience of translating academic texts about economics,which can help the translator work better on economic texts in the future.