An E-C Translation Report On A Woman Of No Importance:The Untold Story Of The American Spy Who Helped Win World War ?(Chapter2-3)

This is an English-Chinese translation report.The original text is selected from A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War?,written by Sonia Purnell,a journalist and biographer who has worked at The Economist,The Telegraphy and The Sunday Times.It belongs to biography.The selected text is Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 and mainly introduces the fascinating and exciting story of Virginia Hall,an American who became one of the best spies for the Allies in World War II and significantly helped Vichy France in the defeat of Nazi Germany.In addition to the introduction of the background of the translation report,structure of the project as well as the translation report.In this translation report,the translator mainly presented the difficulties encountered in the process of translation in terms of the lexical level,syntactical level,textual level and the translation of rhetorical devices.At lexical level,for the military terms,real historical events and foreign names,the translator applied the method of annotation and transliteration.And the translator adopted amplification to make implicit meaning clear.At syntactic level,difficulties are related the translation of attributive sentences,and long and complex sentences.The translator applied postposition method,division and reconstruction to make the sentences fluent and natural.At textual level,difficulties concern with cohesion and coherence,and the method of reference and substitution are used.In the translation of rhetorical devices,the difficulties mainly concentrate on metaphor,parallelism and rhetorical question.The translator utilized the method of free translation and linear translation.Through this translation practice,the translator had a deeper understanding of the history of the Second World War battlefields in Western Europe.Besides,thetranslator's ability has further improved.On the one hand,the translation of this biography is expected readers to reflect on World War ?,and becomes one who will reach into the future and never forget the past.On the other hand,the translation with a view to provide relevant reference for translating biography.