A Report On The Translation Of X Excavator Operation & Maintenance Manual

The mechanical technical text is a basis for professionals and users to acquire the mechanical knowledge and it is also a carrier and tool of the mechanical knowledge distribution and advanced mechanical technique.Users abroad can further know the product after the translation of the manual,which can promote the mechanical technical exchanges and cooperation with other countries,and motivate the implementation of Go Out policy.The research of the translation of mechanical technical text is rare in foreign countries,and it is mainly studied at home.There are few academics who analyze the phenomena of translation shifts at language level in the mechanical technical text,especially in the translation of excavator operation maintenance manual,by the application of Catford's translation shifts theory.There are five parts in the report.The writer describes the translation task in the first part,and this part also refers to the introduction,significance,and structure of the report.The second part is translation process.In this part,the writer describes the source text and summarizes the characteristics of the mechanical text from the perspective of the word,sentence and discourse.Meanwhile,this part also refers to the control of the translation quality by the translator.The third part is mainly the introduction of the theory.The translation practice is guided by Catford's translation shifts theory.In this part,the writer briefly introduces translation shifts theory at first,and then discusses level shifts and category shifts of the theory in detail.The fourth part is case study.The writer analyzes the application of Catford's translation shifts theory in the mechanical technical text by examples of the project and this part also refers to many analyses of differences between Chinese and English.In the last part,the writer summarizes the translation practice and makes suggestions for the translation of the mechanical technical text based on Catford's translation shifts theory.The research further demonstrates the practicability and operability of the translation shifts theory by analyzing the phenomena of translation shifts in the translation of the mechanical technical text X Excavator Operation & Maintenance Manual,which is beneficial to the supplement and enrichment of the translation shifts theory.The writer uses the translation shifts theory to guide the translation practice of the mechanical technical text,which can not only improve the translation quality,but also make the text service users better to meet the demands of the expansion of Chinese enterprises' overseas business.