A Report On The Translation Of The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves(Chapter One)

The source text of this translation project is chosen from the chapter one of a new book called The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves written by Eric Kandel.It owns high-level academic values in the medical field and it is beneficial for people to further understand the brain disorder and relative mental diseases caused by it.Chapter one focuses on the development history,causes and classification of mental diseases.The expected readers are medical workers and family members of patients,so they can learn the advanced ideas and efficient ways of brain disorder exploration and treatments from the Western world.Moreover,the translation can help promote the development of Chinese medical career so that patients with mental diseases can be benefited.The project consists of five chapters.Chapter one is the background,objectives,significance and structure of the Project.Chapter two is the source text introduction,including the publication information,contents,type and linguistic features.Chapter three is the theoretical guidance and the project is guided by the communicative translation theory proposed by Peter Newmark.Chapter four is the difficult points and solutions of the translation.Main difficulties include the translation of medical terms,attributive clauses,sentences with passive voice and complex sentences with dashes.Accordingly,there are some solutions.For example,the attributive clauses can be handled with division and inversion and complex sentences with dashes can be dealt with conversion.Chapter five is the conclusion.