An E-C Translation Report On The First Two Chapters Of Moonwalk

Moonwalk is a biography about Michael Jackson's way to be a famous person in the world.The story was dictated by Michael Jackson himself,and compiled by a professional biographer who did the recording and organized all the scattered materials.Finally,this book was issued.According to the requirements of the graduation thesis for translation,the writer chooses the first two chapters of this book to translation,with a total of 15088 words in the original.The translation practice report describes the whole process of translation,and analyses the problems encountered in the process as well as the solutions.The report is divided into five chapters.The first chapter is about the basic introduction of this report.The second chapter is a description about the process of translation,including translation preparation,theoretical preparation,proofreading and revision.The third chapter is the case analysis under the guidance of Newmark's semantic translation and communicative translation.The writer mainly discusses from two levels: lexical and phrasal level,and syntactic level.The writer applies some translation skills,such as word extension,amplification and conversion,and also analyzes the translation of short sentences,long and difficult sentences and passive sentences.The forth chapter is to exhibit writer's reflection after this translation practice and her tutor's assessment about her translation text.The final chapter of the report is the summary of the translation practice,and it briefly summarizes this translation experience,as well as inspiration and prospect of the future work.The conclusion is that the semantic translation could be used in combination with the communicative translation in translation practice.Only in this way can we get the best outcomes.