An E-C Translation Report On See What You Made Me Do(Chapter 3)

No matter in Western or Eastern countries,domestic violence has always been a universal social problem that arouses a great concern.Therefore,translating foreign academic works related to domestic violence can provide a clear understanding of domestic violence.Hence,the translator selects the investigative report on domestic violence See What You Made Me Do as translation material,and based on Chapter 3,the translation practice report is completed.This investigative report on domestic violence was written by Jess Hill,and the author examines the motives of abusers and proposes concrete and implementable solutions to the problem of domestic violence.Through this book,the public awareness of the domestic violence has been strengthened.This report describes the translation practice in detail.During the translation process,the difficulties encountered by the translator mainly focus on two levels: the lexical level and the syntactic level,and the translator adopts different translation methods to solve them.In terms of the lexical level,the difficulty includes: judgment of parts of speech,proper nouns,and polysemy words.The translator chooses conversion of part of speech,literal translation and established translation,and extension of word meaning to solve them;and in terms of passive voice and long and complex sentences,which can increase the translation difficulties during the preparation of this report,changing the voice,linear translation and recasting methods are adopted to be more appropriate to the source text,so that Chinese readers can comprehend the source text better.The translation practice report not only gives the translator a new understanding of non-fiction literature,but also improves the translator's ability to solve the translation problems of this kind of text.Besides,the translator hopes this translation report can provide valuable reference for future translation practice.