A Report On The Translation Of Campus Website News Of Huazhong Agricultural University

Campus website news,as an indispensable part of university’s external publicity,lets foreign readers have a glimpse of the school’s latest development.In this regard,the translation of campus website news is of crucial importance in building campus culture and promoting international exchanges.This translation practice is a part of the translation project of Huazhong Agricultural University campus website news,which covers a variety of aspects like scientific research achievements,scientific and technological competitions,academic exchanges and campus activities.In order to accurately convey the meaning and intention of the original text,the author takes into consideration the stylistic features,textual functions and communication purposes of campus website news.By adopting methods of addition,subtraction,trans-editing,adaptation,combination and condensation under the guidance of Huang Zhonglian’s translation variation theory,the report discusses the application of this theory in the translation practice of campus website news of HZAU at lexical,syntactic and discourse levels.Through analysis of specific cases,the author comes to realize that translation variation theory can well compensate for the differences in expression between Chinese and English,thus making the translation cater to the special needs of specific readers.To begin with,at the lexical level,the author first adds explanatory translation to terms with Chinese characteristic in campus news,and then adopts strategies like subtraction and adaptation when dealing with words that share similar meaning.Next,at the syntactic level,the author omits redundant information in sentences,combines two or more long sentences into shorter versions and then edits the sentence patterns in a creative way.Last but not least,at the discourse level,the author focuses on the discourse cohesion,the reorganization of paragraph structure as well as the condensation of content.In this translation practice,the author has deepened the knowledge of translation variation theory and accumulated a wealth of practical translation experience.Through this report,the author further sheds light on the applicability of the translation variation theory to campus website news translation,in the hope of providing reference and guidance for subsequent researches on this field.