| The source text of this translation report is excerpted from a book named Io T,AI,and Blockchain for.NET,published by Apress in 2018 and co-written by two prestigious experts.The selected text briefly introduces the Internet of Things,the Artificial Intelligence,the Blockchain and related terms,and makes explanations with vivid examples.It is of great significance for the general public to understand emerging technologies and for junior and intermediate technical developers to absorb supplementary knowledge.The report briefly introduces the content of the selected text and analyzes its features from three perspectives: language style,readability and logicality.At the same time,the guiding theory as well as its feasibility in this translation report are introduced,which has laid the foundation for this translation report.The guiding theory of this translation report is the reductionist approach to translatology.Two principles are utilized as the guidance to technical translation,namely,the optimal relevance and maximum convergence.Specific cases are presented at the lexical and syntactic levels based on a combination of the differences between English and Chinese,including “rigid and supple” and “static and dynamic”.When analyzing cases,the translator lists how to use translation techniques to obtain optimal contextual effects,and points out how the adopted translation techniques can enhance the relevance between the source text and the target text as well as how to make the translation converge to the source text as much as possible.The translator summarizes the experiences and deficiencies gained during the process of translation and the project.The report focuses on technical translation from the perspective of the reductionist approach to translatology and strives to offer new ideas for future translation studies. |
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