A Report On The Translation Of Chu Shijian:A Biography

Combined with about 30 years of enterprise management stories told by Chu Shijian himself, Chu Shijian:A Biography is truly a splendid work which narrates from his days in the army to the period when he became the "Tobacco King", and finally the "Orange King". As the first generation of the most successful business managers, his management thoughts, innovative spirit, and the pursuit of life exert a great influence on the later entrepreneurs.The report based on the writer's translation of the second and the third chapters' translation of the book Chu Shijian.:A Biography. It discusses the application of translation skills and strategies used during the translation. The translation is about fifteen thousand words with local and colloquial expressions as its prominent feature. Moreover, the difficulties of language expression is moderate. Under the guidance of functional equivalence, on the one hand, the writer uses the strategies of omission, conversion and liberal translation to deal with the difficulties in words and phrases translation to transmit the informative information of the source text; On the other hand, based on the differences between Chinese and English, the writer uses adjustment of word order and sentence reconstruction to solve the problems in complex sentences translation. The writer also makes artful treatment of parallelism in the source text so as to reproduce the original style and makes the target text become more coherent and easy to understand and conform to the reading habits of the target text readers.Currently, compared with so many Chinese news and books about Chu Shijian, there are not plenty of English materials or translations about him. Based on the translation of Chu Shijian:A Biography, the report aims to make the westerners gain a more detailed understanding of Chu Shijian's inspiring life and the Chinese enterprise culture. It will be a reference to the English translation study of biographical texts.Therefore, it is of great significance to conduct the translation of Chu Shijian:A Biography to present the peculiar enchantment of Chinese entrepreneurial spirit to westerners.