E-C Translation Report On First Three Chapters Of Hip Hop America

This report is an excerpt from the first three chapters of hip-hop America,which documents the emergence and development of hip-hop from the 1970s to the present and its impact on American society.By George nelson African American writer,columnist,critic,music and cultural critic,journalist,filmmaker.The source text is the best research material for foreign cultural circles to study the development of hip-hop culture.There was one complete translated versions of this book published in China.The translated version for comparison is mainly translated by Li Hongjie.The author intends to find his own shortcomings in the translation process by comparing different versions of the translation.The author chooses to use Reiss's Text Type Theory as a guide to analyze the text type of the excerpt and translate it with the goal of reproducing the content of the source text.And the use of literal translation,free translation,amplification,omission and other translation methods to deal with the long and difficult sentences,to complete the translation of the whole material.Because it introduces the history of hip hop music,it is filled with various proper nouns,names,and record names in the text.The author has collected a lot of information on the Internet.For the translated works published so far,the readers have doubts about the translation quality of the translated works.Therefore this report aims to comparing two versions of translation to summarize translation experience.The fifth chapter of this report mainly lists the translation examples of two versions.Through the analysis of the translation examples and the comparison of the two versions,it summarizes the differences between the two versions as well as the advantages and disadvantages.Therefore,the fifth chapter is the key content of this report.