A Report On The Translation Of Don't Keep Your Day Job:How To Turn Your Passion Into Your Career(Chapters1-2)

This is a translation practice report for the first two chapters of Don't Keep Your Day Job: How to Turn Your Passion into Your Career written by American writer Cathy Heller.The translator tries to seek appropriate strategies and methods according to language features and the type of text so as to convey the feelings of the source text correctly.As an inspirational book,Don't Keep Your Day Job: How to Turn Your Passion into Your Career aims to inspire readers to reflect on their work and life,to make changes,to pursue dreams and to realize their life value.It is featured by free-style and colloquial language,rich feelings and powerful description.If the feelings in the source text couldn't be conveyed felicitously,the readability and emotional appeal in the Chinese version may get weakened.Thus,the translator,under the guidance of Peter Newmark's Communicative Translation theory,adopts the methods of adding,omitting,extending and conversing,aiming to bridge the gap between the two languages in terms of expression form and culture and to make the translated texts as readable as the original texts.This report comprises four parts.Part One serves as an introduction to the whole report.It presents brief information about where this translation project is from,what the source text is about and why it is undertaken.Part Two analyzes the whole translation process,which consists of four aspects: preparation before translation,analysis of the first and the second draft,and further polishing of the final draft.Part Three examines the problems encountered in this translation practice,the solutions adopted to these problems and their effects.Part Four racaps the problems and shortcomings during this report,and elaborates the enlightenment for future practice.