A Translation Report Of Why Black People Tend To Shout(Excerpts)

The book, Why Black People Tend to Shout, is a collection of essays written byRalph Wiley. In this collection of essays, Wiley not only demonstrates the mass cultureon African-American people today in a straightforward way, but also puts forward hisown views about the racial discrimination. The translator chooses six chapters from itfor the translation practice. The six chapters include Why Black People Tend to Shout,How Black People Work Under Pressure, Purple With a Purpose, The Dark Side ofMencken, Why Black People Won’t Eat， Aliens. The life and feelings of theAfrican-American are described in the essays respectively.After finishing the translation, the translator writes a translation report on it. In thereport, the translator puts emphasis on the description of the pre-translation preparationin which the analysis of the text, proper nouns, the key and difficult points and thetranslation tools are described in details. When discussing the key and difficult points,the translator tries to have a thorough understanding of the source text such as the keyand the difficult points, and endeavor to transfer them from source language to targetlanguage and restructure them in the target language.In the case analysis, under the guidance of Nida’s theories of “DynamicEquivalence” and “Reader’s Response”, the translator adopts some translation skills tosolve the difficulties encountered in the translation practice.The translator learns from the translation practice that having a good understandingof two cultures is more important than mastering two languages, and that gettingfamiliar with the differences between Chinese and English is essential for a translatorwhen he transfers and restructures the literary text in the target language.