| With the rapid development of modern science and technology,modern medicine,as one of its important branches,has also made a spurt of progress.In order to better learn the advanced medical and health service technology and management concepts from abroad and improve the academic level of medical talents,the foreign exchange in the medical field has become increasingly frequent,and medical translation has become indispensable.Due to work in Guiyang Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital,the translator wants to better understand the foreign medical system on birth.Thus,this practice report selects the second chapter,Maternal and Newborn Care in the United States of Birth Settings in America: Outcomes,Quality,Access,and Choice(2020),published by the National Academies Press in 2020,as the translation material.This chapter introduces the birth settings in America,maternal and newborn care team,insurance policy and allowance in detail,which can provide a good reference for medical staff engaged in such research and clinical practice.Because the source text is characterized by technical terms and complex sentences,it is required that the translation should faithfully convey the information of the source text.Therefore,this report analyzes the key points and difficulties in the process of translation guided by Andrew Chesterman’s Translation Norm Theory.According to the theory,the translator accurately conveys the information and style of the source text in translation practice by flexibly using translation strategies to meet the expectations of readers.From the syntactic,semantic and pragmatic perspectives,translation strategies such as transposition,abstraction change,sentence structure change,unit shift,paraphrase,explicitness change and visibility change are used to solve the problems in translation,so that the final translated text can meet the requirements of expectancy norms,professional norms,accountability norms,communication norms and relation norms.This also provides a reference for the translation of similar texts in the future. |
