A Translation Report On Precious Metal Inspection Manual

The development of modern society has promoted the continuous improvement in science and technology,thus precious metals has become an important part of strategic reserve resources.Best-selling precious metals in the market may be optimized for processing,even imitation and counterfeiting.However,jewelry appraiser is hard to detect accurately with domestic testing equipment.Then they need to introduce a large number of foreign equipments.It is important to translate the precious metal inspection manuals have a direct influence.The author has translated the first chapter to the fifth chapter of Analyzing Precious Metals for Content & Purity,and has written a practical report on the basis of this book.The report emphasized on target group and also focuses on the translation purposes,which belonging to the typical scientific and technological text.Therefore,it is of great instructive significance of reference Vermeer translation teleology in the course of translation.On the basis of translation teleology,this paper analyzes the difficulties encountered in lexical and syntactic aspects of text translation,and summarizes such translation methods and strategies through the analysis of specific cases.On the one hand,abbreviations and nominalization are widely used and constitute the rule in special structure of precious metals industry.On the other hand,translation strategies conform to Skopos Theory,including literal translation,translation of passive voice,translation of non-subject sentence,translation of conversion and translation of polysemy.In a word,the terminology of precious metal detection manual is translated into literal translation and translation strategy flexibly.Finally,the author hopes that the analysis processed valuable experience used in this report will be useful for future colleagues in translating precious metal testing manuals.