A Report On The Translation Of The Sixth And Seventh Chapters Of The Food Explorer

This report is a translation report on the sixth and seventh chapters of Daniel Stone's The Food Explorer.The book tells the traveling story of the botanist David Fairchild around the world who introduced a variety of plans into America and changed people's diet there.The Food Explorer belongs to science writing.It not only tells the readers scientific knowledge and interesting stories,but also has literary characteristics.Therefore,it's meaningful to translate this book.The translation report is divided into four parts.The first part describes the translation task,which briefly introduces the basis and significance of the topic,the source of the material,the writer and the book.The second part is the process description,describing the pre-translation preparation,the major difficulties encountered,and proofreading,polishing and finalizing.The third part is the case analysis,which is the most important part of this paper.In this part,the difficulties are studied in three aspects,including vocabulary,syntax and discourse.For vocabulary,the text should be translated in the context based on a full understanding of the meaning of the original words;for syntactic translation,the author uses different translation techniques to deal with the difficulties encountered in different sentence patterns,such as literal translation,free translation,amplification,omission and so on;for discourse translation,the author should consider the cultural background and the context.Finally,the last part makes a conclusion about the translation report.Through this translation practice,the author knows about a lot of science knowledge and philosophy.At the same time,the author also improves her translation ability,and accumulates rich experience for future translation practice.