A Report On The Translation Of The Second Chapter Of “the Resilience Factor—7 Keys To Finding Your Inner Strength And Overcoming Life’s Hurdles”

The thesis is a report on the translation of the second chapter of the book entitled "The Resilience Factor---7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life’s Hurdles", co-authored by Kaven Reivech, Ph.D and Andrew Shatte, Ph.D in 2002. The translator will translate and analyze the selected chapter in the light of the communicative translation theory by Peter Newmark.The translation generally followed the classic process of translation. First of all, identify the type of the source text. As the source text serves as a guidebook for people to build or increase their resilience with little subjective force from the authors, it is defined as of informative function. Secondly, choose the righteous theory to guide the translation. In accordance with the theory provided and detailed by Peter Newmark, the translator choose the communicative translation theory as the theory to fit into the source text, as communicative translation theory is intended to give the target readers the same impression over the text as the source readers. Thirdly, the translator translated the source text as guided by communicative translation theory.The paper is composed of five chapters all together. Chapter 1 provides the background information of the translation task. Chapter 2 gives a brief description of the translation process. Chapter 3 outlines the theoretical support of the translation.