A Report On Translation Of Promised Land, Crusader State (Chapter 5 And 6)

The source text chosen for translation practice is the book Promised Land,Crusader State,written by Walter A.McDougall,an American historian and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania who has penned many works about history.And he won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1986 for the work The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age.The translation task involves the fifth chapter “Progressive Imperialism” and the sixth chapter “Wilsonianism,or Liberal Internationalism(so called)”.Based on Newmark's theory of text typology,this book belongs to an informative text which emphasizes content rather than form.It features informativity and objectivity with clear linguistic logic.In the process of translation,communicative translation is taken as the dominant strategy and semantic translation as the supplementary strategy.Combined with these two translation strategies,the translation can not only present the original meaning of the text,but also follow the expression habit of the target readers,so that readers understand the original.This thesis consists of five chapters.Chapter one: introduction,including the introduction to the author and work,the significance of the translation project;chapter two: the process of translation,including pre-translating,while-translating and post-translating;chapter three: theoretical framework,including translation theory and translation strategies used in the process of translation;chapter four: case analysis,analyzing some typical cases chosen from lexical level,syntactic level,textual level and cultural level;chapter five: summary,the impact of the translation task and reflection.