A Report On The Translation Of BHP Billiton Annual Report

This translation task is provided by the branch company of BHP Billiton in Liberia. Ithas about ten thousand English words and belongs to scientific article, which has a commonfeature of sophisticated sentence structures and long and composite sentences with plentyof professional geological terms. This report gives a summary of all the iron ore explorationworks the company has done in2010fiscal year. Reporting period is from July1,2009toJune1,2010. The report gives a detailed introduction and study over the geology, topography,mineralization, stratigraphy and weathering condition in Kitoma, Liberia, and concludes allthe drilling and exploration activities completed in2010by the company.During the process of translation, I take the principle of Eugene Nida’s equivalenttranslation as the guidance to analyze and solve translation problems. The purpose of theprinciple of equivalent translation is to make people who read the article of translation versionacquire the same information as those who read the original one, so as to meet therequirement of the translation of scientific article.