A Report On The E-C Translation Of Prediction Machines:the Simple Economics Of Artificial Intelligence (Chapter One To Four)

The significance of artificial intelligence is extraordinary and draws worldwide attention.Artificial intelligence not only changes rules of business,but also makes humans? work more intelligent and convenient.The latest works about artificial intelligence in western countries play an important role in understanding the development of science and technology.This is an English-Chinese translation report on artificial intelligence,which can help Chinese readers gain the latest trend about this technology.The source text is excerpted from the first four chapters of the book Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence,jointly written by Ajay Agrawal,Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb.This book not only restates the importance of prediction machines and data,but also discusses how to optimize business decisions,work process and enterprise management.Based on Katharina Reiss?s text type theory,the translator categorizes the source text as informative text,whose language features are objective and logical.In this translation report,the translator concentrates on putting forwards translation methods at lexical and syntactic levels in order to solve relevant translation difficulties,which can help target readers acquire more accurate information about artificial intelligence.In resolving the difficulties of translating technological and economic terminologies,the translator adopts the methods of annotation and transference;in translating long and complex sentences,the translator uses the method of sentence restructuring.In addition,in order to ensure the coherence of discourse,the translator also puts forward methods at textual level,including reference and substitution.Through using these translation methods,the translator can obtain a more accurate and fluent target text.The translation has practical values because it provides some useful suggestions for those who are interested in this field.Especially for enterprise operators,they can draw some inspirations from the target text and change their business models to make more profit.Moreover,this report hopes to provide practical references for the future scientific and technological translation at lexical,syntactic and textual levels.