An Excerpted Translation Report Of Faxian Zuimei Gu Zhongguo Shanximijing (In Search Of One Of The Most Beautiful Sights In China:Shanxi As The Hidden Star)

Shanxi Province,known as a province with huge coal reserves,features many tourist sights and local custom with a high historical and cultural value.However,tourist resources here haven't attracted much attention and haven't been completely developed,which leaded to the fact that many people are unfamiliar with Shanxi.So,there is an urgent need for the advertisement.This is an excerpted translation report of Faxian Zuimei Gu Zhongguo Shanximijing?????????????published by China Machine Press.It is the first part of the source text that makes an introduction to the tourist sights and local custom in Taiyuan,Yangquan,Pingyao and other places in the central Shanxi.This report is about a translation from Chinese to English.The main contents of this translation report include four parts.Part One talks about the translation project description,including the significance of the translation report and its organization.Part Two demonstrates the preparation stages,including the introduction to the author and his works,the analysis of source text language,and some preparation work before translation.Part Three mainly talks about cases analysis and translation methods.Part Four shows a conclusion of the enlightenment during the process of translation,and lessons that need learning and problems that need solving.It is showed by the report that the source text introduces the tourism in Shanxi with some special views of the writer,therefore it is slightly different from a tourist text regarding the type of sentence and the text.In the translating process,many translation methods,through using different translation tools,are applied to break the structure of the source text with an aim to express the full information of the source text.At the same time,based on the semantic translation and communicative translation of Peter Newmark,the report makes an analysis on the phrases with four characters,poetic sentences,sentences with dui'ou and dui'zhang and so on.This translation report expects to offer some help to the translation of the similar type.