The E-C Translation Of Medical And Mental Health During Childhood:Psychosocial Perspectives And Positive Outcomes(Chapter 2-3) And A Report On The Translation

The thesis is composed of three parts: the source text,the target text and the translation report.Medical and Mental Health During Childhood: Psychosocial Perspectives and Positive Outcomes mainly introduces ten diseases endangering the physical and mental health of children and relevant interventions.Chapter 2 and chapter 3 provide information about the symptoms,medication and care plans of asthma and diabetes.Due to the growing prevalence of diabetes and asthma in children,the lack of medical resources and the strained relationship between doctors and patients,family-centered care plans are worth popularizing,which drives the translator to select the two chapters as her translation task.The source text belongs to the medical text focusing on describing medical facts,which is objective,logical and scientific and characterized by precise wording,rigorous structure,abundant jargons,long and difficult sentences and passive voice.Catford’s Translation Shifts examines shifts on and below the level of sentence.As medical English also belongs to EST(English for Science and Technology)and Translation Shifts is applicable to the translation of EST,the translator chooses this theory to guide the translation practice.In the translation report,the translator first introduces the source text and analyzes the significance of this translation practice.Then she provides a description to Translation Shifts and summarizes its guiding value to medical texts.At last,the report puts emphasis on discussing the application of Translation Shifts in translation practice from the aspects of level shifts and category shifts.