Report On The Translation Of Pittsburgh Water And Sewer Authority Audit Report

The source text is the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority Audit Report. This report is designed to reflect the annual condition of this Authority by statements and data, so as to help the Authority adjust the work and provide some reference for China's related management sectors. Therefore, this translation of Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority Audit Report is of great social significance.This report is finished under the guidance of Newmark's Communicative Translation.Based on the analysis of the linguistic and textual features, the translator adopts the adaptability as the strategy of this translation report. For the source text is an economic audit report, which focuses on the normalization and accuracy, the translator explores how to better adapt to TL readers from normalization and accuracy. The normalization mainly involves the normalization of professional terms, names of organization, expression patterns and format. And the translation methods of borrowing the equivalents in Chinese,literal translation, making annotations, format conversion are used. The accuracy includes the accuracy of figures, and polysemy. In order to keep the accuracy of figures, the translator should pay more attention to the usage of the prepositions; and for polysemy, the translator should analyze the its nonverbal features, and the pragmatic function in certain context.This translation report aims to provide some information in water and sewer for reference to the personnels in this field, and also give some suggestion in translation strategy and translation skills to the translators who would do some work in translating audit report.