| Big data provides a new way for people to view the world. By collecting and analyzing data,people can make many discoveries, thus driving the development in various fields. Big data plays an increasingly important role in many fields, such as finance, communications, military affairs, politics and culture. The research and application of big data in cultural field are still at initial stage all over the world, especially in China. Now, only a small number of scholars start applying big data in their academic researches while most scholars may have knowledge of big data but don’t know how to take advantage of it. Therefore, the selected topic about the application of big data in cultural field is new to scholars in China.Chinese books about researches of big data in cultural field are few in number. Thus the translation of English books about researches and application of big data in cultural field is of practical significance. The book the writer chooses to translate is named Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture, which elaborates research results on numerous books on Google with the aid of a new search tool called Ngram Viewer. In this report, the writer chooses chapters 1and 7 of this book as a translation material and displays her translation principle and strategies employed.The report details an introduction of the translation task and the translation process and provides case analyses. Task description introduces the task, including task background,introduction of the source text and target readers. Process description elaborates the translation from three perspectives, namely preparations before translation, quality control and translation tools. In the case analysis, the writer probes into translation difficulties encountered in this scientific and technical text from the perspectives of Skopos Theory. Under the guidance of Skopos Theory, various translation methods are adopted at lexical, syntactical and semantic levels for the coherence and fidelity of the target text. The writer hopes this report can enlighten scholars and other students who are interested in the translation of scientific and technical texts. |
