| The text materials selected in the report is the second and third chapter from Fire and Fury:Inside the Trump White House,written by Michael Wolff published in 2018.The author is Vanity Fair and USA Today columnist.According to Wolff,the book details the behavior of U.S.President Donald Trump and the staff of his 2016 presidential campaign and White House.The book became a New York Times number one bestseller.Reviewers generally accepted Wolff’s portrait of a dysfunctional Trump administration,but were skeptical of many of Wolff’s particular claims.The translation of this book belongs to a major type of practical translation.There are a large number of political figures in the original text,which is vital for the translator to make clear the relationship between the figures and their political opinions.At the same time,for the translation of this book,it is crucial to understand and convey the original author’s political position and points of view.Since relevance theory regards translation as a process of communication,the translator should adopt different translation strategies to achieve the optimal relevance between the original and the target text according to the context and the cognitive ability of the readers.Under the guidance of relevance theory,the translator makes an analysis of the translation of an excerpt from Fire and Fury:Inside the Trump White House at lexical level,syntactic level and textual level respectively to ensure that the target language reader can fully appreciate the original author’s intention.Through this translation practice,the translator draws the following conclusions:Firstly,the translator can use different translation methods to help the target language readers better understand the emotions and views of the original author under the guidance of the relevance theory.Secondly,the ostensive-inferential model has a guiding significance for the translator to explore the original author’s political stance and party’s fight.Thirdly,the translator has studied a lot on the political figures about their background and political views and some uncertain expressions in the original text with the help of search engines and translation softwares,which are indispensable in today’s translation practice.The author hopes that this report can provide some references for translation studies and accumulate some experience for her future translation work. |
