A Translation Project Report On Annual Report To Congress:Military And Security Developments Involving The People’s Republic Of China2012(Chapter One To Four And Appendix One)

This is a translation project report on Annual Report to Congress:Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China2072(Chapter One to Four and Appendix One). The source text is a report, submitted by the US Department of Defense to the US Congress in2012, on the developments of China’s military and security.The report consists of four parts:(1) Introduction to the source text and the purpose, significance and structure of this translation project;(2) Background of the translation project report, which includes the theoretical framework, text analysis, both on characteristics of sentence patterns and characteristics of textual structures;(3) Process of the translation and case study. This part is mainly about preparation, translating techniques and approaches with some examples based on the translation;(4) Summary, including learning experience and lessons acquired from the translation and unsolved problems. I hope to improve my translating skills and techniques and have access to various useful translating approaches through the translation of this source text in practice.