A Report On E-C Translation Of Documents Of Nuclear Waste Transportation Risk Assessment

The original text is taken from section VI of "Developments in the Transport of Radioactive Waste Proceedings of a Seminar Held in Vienna,21-25 February 1994",which is from the project "Study of Nuclear Waste Disposal" of the Center for Latin-America and the Caribbean Studies.The text is related to the assessment of transport risks at nuclear waste disposal sites.The translation of this text provides a reference for the assessment of nuclear waste transportation risks in China.The author completes the translation task under the guidance of the functionalist theory.The original text belongs to the category of scientific and technical text,which focuses on the transmission of information.The "Function plus Loyalty" proposed by Christiane Nord emphasizes that the purpose of the translated text should be consistent with the original text author’s intention,so that the translated text can function in the intended way in the target situation.Guided by this theory,the author completes the translation within the required time limit.At the lexical level,the author explores to render scientific and technical terms into the translated text through the choice of words’ meaning and conversion of parts of speech.At the syntactic level,the author translates long and complex sentences by way of amplification,division and restructuring.The author summarizes the gains,shortcomings and reflections in the translation process by revising and proofreading the translation after the project is completed.Under the guidance of the functionalist theory,the author comes to the conclusion that the principle of loyalty is applicable to the translation of informative texts as demonstrated in the translation of nuclear waste transportation papers,which can also provide a reference for other translators to translate similar scientific and technical texts.