A Report On The Translation Of Matchmakers: The New Economics Of Multisided Platforms (Excerpt)

This is a report on the translation of the book Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms,co-authored by David S.Evans and Richard Schmalensee,and published in May 2016.Exploring the business model behind multisided platforms,this book is interesting and informative for those who are curious about the global economy leaders and keen to keep track of what is going on in business today.Though the style of writing is lucid and logical,there are many economic jargons and long sentences,which constitute great difficulty in translating.The whole report falls into five parts: first,task description,which presents the reasons behind the choice of this text and the background information thereof;second,process description,which introduces the translating process;third,text analysis,which presents the applied theory and the linguistic features of the informative text;fourth,case study,which analyzes the translation process with specific examples at lexical and syntactical level;and fifth,conclusion,which is a summary of the whole report.