A Report On The Translation Of Fix IT:See And Solve The Problems Of Digital Healthcare(Chapter Thirty-one)

With the rapid development of digital technology,Digital Technology Plus initiatives has become the mainstream in all industries and sectors.Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic,digital healthcare has made a great contribution to fighting against the pandemic.The material for this translation practice is selected from Chapter Thirty-one of Fix IT:See and solve the problems of digital healthcare,written by British Prof.Harold Thimbleby in 2021.This chapter focuses on the technological contributions that digital healthcare can make to the fight against the pandemic under the background of COVID-19,mainly wearable computers,tracking apps,epidemiological models and ventilators.This book is a popular science text,which is professional and popular.The purpose of this translation practice is to convey the information of the original text and ensure that the target language readers and the source language readers get the same reading experience.Therefore,in this translation practice,under the guidance of functional equivalence theory proposed by Eugene Nida,the author combines the literal translation method with free translation method to analyze the translation samples from the three aspects:lexical,syntactic and discourse.According to the characteristics of the text,the author adopts translation skills including word conversion,word meaning extension,and long sentence splitting to strive for the completeness of the translation information and smooth language,so as to make the whole text logical close and natural connection,and achieve the dynamic equivalence between English and Chinese.In this translation practice,the author applies the theory of functional equivalence to the translation of medical popular science texts,adopts the translation methods of combining literal translation and free translation,hoping to provide reference for the translation of popular science texts.At the same time,the translation of the text is not only conducive to the development of digital healthcare,but also makes people look at digital healthcare more objectively,so as to make digital healthcare develop by leaps and bounds in the context of the epidemic.