A Chinese-English Translation Report On Popular Science Texts About COVID-19 Under The Guidance Of Communicative Translation Theory

Since the beginning of 2020,the COVID-19 pandemic has been the focus of public concern in recent years,and has attracted wide attention from people around the world.Over the past three years,China’s epidemic prevention strategy has been optimized,adjusted,scientific and precise,and achieved good results.It has not only ensured people’s lives,health and safety,but also demonstrated China’s commitment to building a community with a shared future for mankind.China’s successful experience in epidemic prevention and control is worth promoting and spreading to the outside world,so that more countries can better understand China and the Chinese spirit.Therefore,popular science articles on epidemic prevention in China are selected for translation,and the readers can better understand China’s epidemic prevention policies,improve their cognition and impression on China.The selected articles not only include the integration of relevant epidemic prevention policies,such as “lockdown”,community grid management and precise allocation of national resources,but also introduce the contents of digital prevention and control and compound knowledge transmission in the era of big data.The translator chooses Newmark’s Communicative Translation Theory to guide the translation practice,and analyzes the translation cases from lexical level,syntactic level and discourse level.When dealing with policy terms,rhetorical sentences,long sentences and the coherence of sentence meaning,the translator adopts the translation methods of annotation,literal translation,and addition of cohesive words and so on.On the basis of achieving the function of popular science and communication,the report has enriched the practical experience of combining the theory of Communicative Translation with the English translation of popular science articles.