The E-C Translation Report On The Mayan Calendar And The Transformation Of Consciousness (Excerpt)

This is an E-C translation report,and the source text of the translation project is taken from the Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness by Swedish scientist Carl John Calleman.This book provides a detailed description of the Mayan calendar system,which reveals the relationship between the Mayan calendar and the evolution of the universe.Firstly,through the translation of the Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness,the translator describes the translation process in detail,covering preparations before translating,translation procedures,and post-translation proofreading.Secondly,according to the characteristics of the source text,the translator analyzes the difficulties encountered in the process of translating.At the lexical level,there are plenty of proper nouns,such as names of people,places,and unique vocabularies like calendar units;at the syntactic level,the vast gap between English and Chinese and complicated linguistic phenomena increase the difficulty of translating.Finally,the translator exemplifies the translation methods from the perspective of word and syntax,including the selection of word meaning,annotation,transliteration,sequential translation,reconstruction and division.The translator also summarizes translation experience,hoping to provide some reference value for the translation of such text.