Report On E-C Translation Of USA Basketball Youth Development Guidebook

The future development of basketball depends to a great extent on the training quality of young players.Advanced training systems and methods are needed as guidance to improve the training quality of young players.USA Basketball Youth Development Guidebook is a theoretical book published by the American Basketball.The advanced training methods in the book have certain reference significance for the training of Chinese youth basketball players.The author is entrusted by Shanxi Shuohua Sports Development Co.,Ltd.to translate the book USA Basketball Youth Development Guidebook(E-C)and is responsible for the first five chapters.The author adopts Newmark's translation strategy of communicative translation as the major one and semantic translation as the auxiliary in the translation practice,and makes a comparative analysis combining with specific cases from three aspects of lexis,sentence and discourse.And the author uses translation techniques such as discourse cohesion,division,syntactical readjustment and amplification.After the completion of this translation practice,the entrusting party gives their assessment that the translation is smooth,faithful to the original text and meets their requirements.And this report is the analysis and summary of this translation practice.The author finds that sports texts are highly specialized and there are some difficulties in text translation.Moreover,semantic translation and communicative translation strategies are appropriate to guide the translation of sports texts.And translation skills such as discourse cohesion,division,syntactical readjustment and amplification can improve the efficiency and quality of translation.Research on sports text translation is relatively less for the moment.Therefore,the author expects this report would offer references to those who embark on sports text translation.