Translation Report On The English-Chinese Translation Of Tolerance

Tolerance is about the history of human development in which tolerance is the most important theme. The author is a famous American writer Hendrik Willem van Loon. He describes the development of human’s thoughts and civilization, and believes people should be tolerant to those who hold different ideas. He insists that only tolerance can help the development of civilization. Written in English, the book has 30 chapters among which chapter 15 is rendered by the translator and there are 11,000 Chinese characters counted. The book is historical works with formal language, professional terminologies and complex sentences. According to text type theory of Reiss, it contains the features of both informative text and expressive text.The translation report is the record of the English-Chinese translation practice, mainly describing the process and achievement of chapter 15. The key point of the report is to analyze the difficulties and to find out solutions under the guidance of the translation theories. There are five chapters in this report:introduction, the description of translation procedure, translation theories applied, difficulties and solutions, and summaries. Chapter One introduces the task, the writer, the text, and describes the value and significance of the report. Chapter Two describes the procedure of translation, including the preparation before translation, the translation process, and the summary after the translation. Chapter Three is about the translation theories. Text type theory, foreignization and domestication strategies, as well as communicative and semantic translation theories are introduced in this chapter. Chapter Four is the core part, and the translator analyzes the difficulties from the aspect of words, sentences, and the stylistic forms. Chapter Five is summaries of achievements limitations that reflected in the translation practice.The report shows that it is necessary for the translator to acquire some knowledge of the background of the works, to value every step in the translation practice, and to summarize translation principles and features about the history works through her own experiences. The translator learned translation theories and accumulated translation skills, which certainly will give some help to the translator’s further practice and maybe give a bit experience to other translators when they are dealing with works of this field.