A Practice Report On Chinese Translation Of World Trade Report 2017(Excerpt)

Since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001,China's economic and trade exchanges have become more and more frequent and play an important role in the international economic and trade arena.The development of the world trade has higher and more urgent demand for the translation of economic and trade English.The economic and trade texts are informative texts,which pay more attention to the expression of meaning.The translation report is based on 2017 world trade report-trade,technology and employment,summarizing some practical strategies for the translation of economic and trade texts with specific examples in the text,including conversion,amplification,order-changing and splitting,so as to help the translators choose the appropriate and novel perspectives and strategies in the English-Chinese translation.Through the analysis and translation of The World Trade Report,the author focuses on several problems which should be paid attention to in the process of Chinese Translation:how to sum up the linguistic features of the economic and trade texts before translation;how to compare the language characteristics of the type of text in the translation and how to master the translation techniques and strategies in Chinese translation;And how to sum up the experiences after translation.The report shows that,for Chinese translation of economic and trade texts,the translator should always keep in mind the purpose and function of the target text,taking into account the language features of the original text and the expression habits of the target readers.and using the appropriate translation methods such as conversion,amplification,order-changing and splitting to translate the text that the reader can accept and realize the expected function...