A Translation Project Report Of Under The Weather: How Weather And Climate Affect Our Health (chapter1-2) By Pat Thomas

This translation project report on Under the Weather: How Weather and Climate AffectOur Health is completed basing on the translation about the chapter one and chapter two of theoriginal text. This report makes a simple introduction about the relevant information of theoriginal text and analyzes its text type and language features. Newmark’s text analysis theoryand related translation strategy are used in the translation process. The significance of theproject lies in improving and strengthening the relevant government departments andindividuals’ capabilities to cope with climate changes through describing the relationship amongweather, climate and human health and its importance. This report is divided into five parts:chapter one is the report’s project introduction including project background, significance andreport structure; chapter two presents the background of the original text containing theintroduction of the author and the analysis of the source text; chapter three aims at analyzingtranslation difficulties. The source text involves more contents about the fields of meteorology,medicine, physiology and so on. It’s certainly difficult to translate technical terms andvocabularies, the choice of word meaning and sentence structures are more complicated.Through consulting relevant professional materials, the translator makes a deep analysis aboutthe original text in which the source contents can be expressed correctly; chapter four underlinestranslation methods and skills used in the translation process, they are literal translation, specifictranslation and translation in reverse order; chapter five draws a conclusion of the lesson andenlightenment from this translation practice and some problems existing in translator herself.