A Report On Informative Text Translation

With the development of economy and technology,China has entered the comprehensive construction of well-off society stage,people have free time to enjoy life on weekends or on holidays.This kind of lifestyle change promotes people to pay more attention to the importance of physical and mental health.Leisure entertainment is favored by most people.However,because of the casual nature of entertainment activities,people often ignore the safety problem and the injury caused by accidents.Therefore,the translator selects The Event Safety Guide,as the health,safety and welfare guide for live entertainment events in the United States,combining the opinions of event safety experts and professionals and providing the best operable event scheme for the organizers of large and small-scale events,aims to improve the safety problems in this area and attract the attention of people.The first chapter of the translation report introduces the background and significance of the project.The second chapter describes the whole process of the project,including the preparation before translation,the translation process and the review after translation,and pre-translating includes collection of background data and translation tools and text analysis.This section analyzes the text type of The Event Safety Guide from lexical,syntactical and textual levels,and explains the characteristics of the informative text and translation principles.The third chapter analyses the main difficulties encountered in translation and methods,which is the translation of terminologies and passive sentences.In the last chapter,the author summarizes the translation experience gained from this translation project and the limitations.It is hoped that this report can provide references for relevant informative texts.