A Report On The E-C Translation Of Rome:An Empire’s Story (Excerpts)

This report is based on the E-C translation practice of Rome: An Empire’s Story(Excerpts)written by Greg Woolf,a British historian,which describes in various dimensions the vicissitude of Rome.The first two chapters of the book,which are selected as the source text of the translation task,mainly present an overview of the Roman history and discuss Rome’s long-standing influence in people’s mind.As a historical text,the source text contains rich historical and culture-related contents,and in addition,the author has abundant knowledge in history,thus the text abounds with implicit information,which is not explicitly presented in the text but is part of what the author wants to express.Therefore,translators should not only pay attention to the coherence and fluency of the translation,but also fully consider the reception of target language readers,and properly deal with the implicit information.According to explicitation theory,this report focuses on the translation of implicit information in source text,aiming to introduce information which is present only implicitly in source language into target language.For the variety of implicit information at both semantic and pragmatic levels,the translator puts forward corresponding translation methods.For implicit information at semantic level,the translator adopts two translation methods: substitution and paraphrase;for implicit reference information,implicit logical information and implicit cultural information at pragmatic level,the translator adopts respectively the translator adopts specification,restructuring and amplification.By exploring the processing of implicit information with examples,this report is expected to provide references for the related researches and the translation of implicit information in this kind of text.