A Report On English-Chinese Translation Of Electric Vehicles:Prospects And Challenges (Excerpts)

With the rapid development of the social economy and the improvement of people's environmental awareness,electric vehicles have become the focus of the government and enterprises.At present,domestic electric vehicles are in the process of promotion and application,yet the development of its battery technologies is still in the bottleneck period.Relatively,the development of electric vehicles in Western countries started earlier,and it has now matured.Technically,there are many aspects that we should learn from.This report is based on English-Chinese Translation of the fourth chapter of Electric Vehicles: Prospects and Challenges.The original text mainly introduces the latest electric vehicle battery technology,indicating the next research direction and challenges.The text is professional,with standardized language and strong logic,which belongs to scientific texts.In the process of translation,the translator is required to translate the text in an accurate and authentic language,that is,to emphasize the expression of the original information but the equivalence of the language.Thus,the translator chooses Catford's Translation Shift Theory to guide this translation report,and explores the translation strategies of scientific and technical text from level shifts and category shifts respectively.In view of the difficulty of the original text sentence level,the translator adopts grammar shifts at the level of level shifts,and at the level of category shifts,it mainly adopts voice shifts,word order shifts,word category shifts and long to short sentence shifts,to improve the accuracy and readability of the translation.This report mainly deals with the electric vehicle battery texts,summarizes its characteristics,and draws certain translation strategies and methods under the guidance of Catford's Translation Shift Theory.The translator hopes not only to provide usable information for research on electric vehicle batteries,but also to provide green-hand translators and non-translating technicians with another point of view for translating technical texts.