A Report On The Translation Of The Guardian Elephant Conservation Series

This report is selected from the Special Report "Elephant conservation"on the Guardian website.There are six pieces of news including:Saving Africa's elephants:'Can you imagine them no longer existing?'(Harriet,2016),Elephants on the path to extinction—the facts(Karl,2016),In a world of 7 billion people how can we protect wildlife?(John,2016),Elephants are the end of a 60m-year lineage-last of the megaherbivores(Patrick,2016),Large ivory seizures in Singapore make it a smuggling hub of 'primary concern'(Karl,2016),and We can save elephants.But can we save wild elephants?(Will,2016).This report consists of detailed analysis on the translation strategies,at lexical,syntactical and textual levels respectively with examples for further clear illustration.At lexical level,the author focuses primarily on such techniques as conversion,cohesion and etc.At syntactical level,methods like amplification,splitting,re-ordering and discourse coherence are duly examined.In the following part,the author discusses how to make the translation reflects the textual style of news material.The author concludes some gains drawn from the translation report.A qualified translator must have knowledge from different fields.Only accumulation can make progress.