A Practice Report On The E-C Translation Of Power Train For A Motor Vehicle From The Perspective Of Skopos Theory

With high-tech as the guide,the 21 st century is a knowledge-driven era which attaches great importance to the intellectual property research and development and protection.Patent,as an intellectual property,mainly aims at obtaining the national-level legal protection of the invention in a technical field.Much attention has been given to patent protection in international fierce competition.Whether it is for a patent application from foreign protection or learning from the extant patent documents,the patent document translation becomes more and more important.The source text Power train for a motor vehicle belongs to the mechanical translation of patents,possessing objectivity and professionalization similar to scientific documents,and rigorousness and standardization similar to legal documents.Considering its meticulous logic,clear structure and accurate language,it is of great importance to grasp translating language on the basis of a good understanding of the source text.Based on the hands-on experience of the translation task named Power train for a motor vehicle and the original text's features,this report will analyze how to choose proper translating strategies such as literal translation,free translation under the guidance of Skopos theory from German functionalist theory(mainly refers to skopos rule,coherence rule and fidelity rule).Specifically,from perspectives of lexical features,sentence characteristics,word translation and tool references,it mainly analyzes the difficulties of a power train for a motor vehicle,and illustrates with examples the corresponding translation skills such as fixed expression application,repetition,combination and conversion in the hope of being a reference for future translation of mechanical patent document like this.