Translation Practice Report On Criminal Judgments

Legal translation features practical applicability, high standardability, various text types and so forth. The criminal judgment translated by the author is a typical category of legal texts. The translation of the No.260(2014) Criminal Judgment was entrusted by the People’s Procuratorate of Sanhe. In view of the text length(10,131 characters), the author performed the task within one month alone. The translated version is used as a law report which may offer reference to legal workers and legal translation enthusiasts.This practice report is composed based on the author’s translation practice. By analyzing the translation process and cases, it aims to discuss some relevant issues, including how to “select” and “adapt” under the guideline of eco-translatology and how to expand the translator’s subjectivity role to the uttermost with the translator’s capability and sense in order to select a translated version with higher acceptability. This report consists of four parts: the first part offers an overview of translation task, including the background and brief introductions of eco-translatology and criminal judgments; the second part is a description of translation process, including task preparation, task process and proof-reading; the third part is the case study that discusses application of translation strategies and techniques under the guideline of eco-translatology in specific cases; the last part is summarization and conclusion. This translation report is a combination of translation theory and translation practice by the author, and it is also a review and conclusion on this translation practice. The author hopes this report can be a reference for legal translation.