The Whole Story Of Climate: What Science Reveals About The Nature Of Endless Change (excerpt) Translation Practice Report

As an important part of people's living environment, climate has a significant impact on natural ecology, human life and social economy. In recent years, a lot of climate catastrophes such as melting glaciers in the Himalayas, deterioration of the Ozone Layer over Antarctica,especially the recent hazy weather have been great threats to people's health and lives. People are paying more and more attention to climate change. However, most of the books on climate change are imported; therefore, translation of such books can help people know more about the climate change and deal with climate change more effectively.This is a translation report on climate change. The author selected The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals about the Nature of Endless Change as the source text for the translation practice. Based on the translation of Chapter I and Chapter II, the paper aims to analyze the complex sentences under the direction of Nida's translation theory of back-transformation. With this translation practice, the author of the paper hopes to know more about the global climate change and also improve the ability of translation.The report consists of four parts. The first part describes the source and content of the translation text. The second part describes the process of translation, including preparation,translation and revision. The third part introduces the analysis of the complex sentences under the guidance of Nida's theory of back-transformation. The fourth part is the summary of the translation report.