A Report On The Translation Of How To Scrutinize A Production Sharing Agreement (Excerpts)

Petroleum plays a significant,even critical,role in the modern industrial world and it has become a kind of strategic resource.As we all know,recent drop in oil price has led to the depression of international oil market.In this context,it is extremely important for China’s major oil companies to enlarge their profit shares in the overseas oil market.In time of exploring oil in other countries and joint exploration with foreign corporations,China’s oil company will definitely encounter some issues of production and benefits sharing.So it is of great importance to learn the relevant agreement to avoid conflicts arising thereof.The report takes the translation practice of an excerpt part of How to Scrutinize a Production Sharing Agreement as the study target.Functional equivalence theory is applied to the translation so as to make the target language more accurate.The report consists of three chapters.The first chapter is task description,which includes the background,objective and significance of the research.The second chapter is process description,which includes the preparation before translation,preparation for translation theory,translation process and revision of translation.The third chapter is case analysis,which consists of lexical translation,syntactic translation and textual translation.Translator sets some detailed examples in the translation to explain the common translation methods in EST translation.The conclusion summarizes the translator’s experiences and lessons in translation process.