A Report On E-C Translation Of Churchill's Letters From The Gathering Storm

Generally speaking,letter is a tool for people to deliver information,interchange ideas and promote relations.The culture and history behind letters are more and more important.In recent years,many well-known authors' letters are more and more popular in the international auction market.That is to say letters have now acquired collectable status,which makes it more necessary to translate famous writers' letters.The author extracts some letters from The Gathering Storm written by Winston Churchill and translates them into Chinese which the target readers can understand and accept with their own cultures.Based on the translation practice of Winston Churchill's letters in The Gathering Storm,this report studies how to translate epistolary texts properly from the perspective of Katharina Reiss' Text Typology Theory.This report analyzes the main difficulties encountered in the translation practice and explores proper solutions.To solve these difficulties,the translator concludes some translation methods: “literal translation and free translation”,“division and combination of sentences” and so on.There are five parts in this report.The first part is an introduction to the background of the project.The second part describes the translation task in details,including the analysis of the original text and the requirements from entrusting party.The third part is a conclusion of the translation process,including the translation plan,choice of translations tools,the analysis of parallel text and the choice of translation theory.The forth part is about case analysis.In this part,the author deals with some major translation difficulties and gives some solutions.In the last part,the author sums up some reflections on translation practice.