| It’s a translation report of Translation in the Digital Age(Chapter Five) written by Professor Michael Cronin. The book was first published by Routledge in 2013. In this book Professor Michael Cronin makes a comprehensive discussion of translation in the digital age and its influences on politics, society and culture. As an academic work, the book is involved in a wide range of disciplines, such as anthropology, geography, history and sociology, reflecting the characteristic of inter-disciplinarity of translation studies. The detailed analysis and argumentation makes it a must for researchers and students in the field of translation, cultural and linguistic study. Through this translation report, domestic scholars of translation studies and students majoring in translation can obtain further information about the topic of translation studies in the digital age, and deepen the knowledge of the latest field of study in translation, thus providing precious guidance for the future research.In this translation report, the writer first introduces the background and significance of the project and then analyzes the content and stylistic features of the source text. In view of this academic work’s features: scientificity, logicality, creativity and conciseness, the writer chooses skopos theory by Hans J. Vermeer as the guideline of translation. Under the guidance of the three principles of skopos theory: skopos, fidelity and coherence rule, the writer explains, by way of illustration, some difficulties like the translation of proper nouns, terms and long complex sentences and offers appropriate translation solutions for each difficulty. During this translation the writer gains a lot but translation of some long sentences and terms is not accurate and succinct enough due to the writer’s lack of translation experience, so the translation ability of the writer still needs to be improved. |
