Translation Report Of The Asian Pacific Economic Literature Excerpt

Due to economic globalization,more and more attentions have been paid into economic cooperation in recent years.The source text of this translation report is an economic paper,titled Cooperation between Countries to Ensure Global Economic Growth:a Role for the G20?And the main content is about the G20's effects and influence on the global economy.This report makes an analysis of the translation by focusing on the difficulties encountered and offers approaches to the difficulties in the translation process.During the translation process,translation of terms and difficult sentences are the key problems to be solved.Before translation,the translator first reads the whole source text and looks up the new words.Compared with any other texts,this economic paper is more professional and objective,rigorous,concise and accurate,including a lager number of economic terms and long and difficult sentences.Through the parallel text and with the help of the guidance of the Functional Equivalence Theory,which is proposed by the American translator Eugene Nida,this report aims at preliminarily analyzing characteristics of the source text and exploring translation strategies for the selected text.With so many obstacles in the translation process and because of the differences between eastern and western cultures and expression habits,it is difficult to achieve the requirements of faithfulness and expressiveness in the translation process.Through the guidance of the Functional Equivalence Theory,the translator tries to make the source language totally and fluently converted in the target text.The translation practice shows that a qualified translator of economic discourse should not only solidly grasp the knowledge of English and Chinese languages,but also acquire the related knowledge of economy.In addition,more practice,carefulness and patience also plays a vital role for the translation quality.