A Report Of Text Translation Of Transportation And Infrasture On CBO Website

The paper is a practical translation report based on the texts from the transportation and infrastructure topic on the Congressional Budget Office website which introduce the information about budget, taxes, acts and policies on transportation and infrastructure. The translation version acts as an reference for Budget Engineering Committee of our province in the aspects of the supervision of budgets and final accounts, budget adjustment projects and the execution of budgets.The practical report contains four parts, the introduction of the translation task, description of the task procedure, the problems and the solutions during the procedure, the thoughts and self-examination in the translation. Among them, it is addressed to prepare the parallel text and the terminology during the pre-translation step. It is also of great value to pay attention to the typical cases from the levels of vocabulary, clauses and passive voice for future translation practice.The report adopts text typology of Peter Newmark as the guiding theory. On the basis of Newmark’s theory, the texts entrusted in the translation task belong to informative type. As a result, communicative translation strategy is adopted to provide accurate and objective information to the readers.