A Report On Translating The “Belt And Road” : China's Grand Initiative And The New Global Future

The Belt and Road Initiative is not only a major measure for China to implement all-round opening-up under the new historical conditions,but also a joint initiative of countries along the routes,providing an innovative mode of development and cooperation for other regions in the world.The “ Belt and Road”:China's Grand Initiative and the New Global Future,one of a series of books on the study of free trade zones,was officially published in March 2017.It is an authoritative work to interpret the“ Belt and Road” initiative.The author carefully selected the first chapter of this book as the text of this translation practice with a total of 16211 words.Translating this text into accurate,professional and fair translation can not only enable the majority of readers at home and abroad to understand the Belt and Road Initiative truthfully,but also understand our Party and government's good intentions and beautiful vision for the great initiative.Meanwhile,it can eliminate the misgivings and misunderstandings of foreign readers about this initiative and make us work together for the great initiative and achieve common development.Under the guidance of skopos theory,the author translates the text by literal and free translation,addition and omission translation and other translation methods in the translation practice.And this thesis has explored and studied the strategies,characteristics and relevant translation techniques of political texts in English translation.The author attempts to solve the problems encountered in the process of translating political texts into English through the Skopos theory,sum up the experience,and write this translation practice report.There are five chapters in this thesis which are the description of the translation task,the theoretical basis of translation practice,the description of the translation process,the key points and methods of the translation,and the summary.