An Translation Report On The Dark Prophecy (Chapter One And Two)

This is an English-Chinese translation report on a children's fantasy novel The Dark Prophecy written by Rick Riordan,who is the NO.1 New York Times bestselling author of over twenty novels for young readers in America.The Dark Prophecy is the second book of The Trials of Apollo.The novel contains humorous language,attractive story,strange imagination and ancient Greek myth characters in a framework of modern adventure story.There is no published translation of the book,so it is a good choice for the writer to take as a translation text.The translator selected the first two chapters for English-Chinese translation.and then completed the translation report.The report is to translate the novel in English into Chinese,express the meaning and the style of the original text,analyze the difficulties in the translation and then come up with correspondingly proper translation strategies.At first,the author analyzes the translation difficulties such as words related with modern American life and ancient Greek myth,short sentences without junction-words,long sentence,various figures of speech and so on,and then demonstrates typical examples to illustrate different methods such as foreignization,conversion of part of speech,adjustment of sentence order,amplification,conversion from positive expression to negative expression,change of conjunction and retention of part of speeches respectively on the lexical,syntactic and discourse aspects.Finally,the translation report draws a conclusion with the end of the limitation and the experience of translation.The writer deems that in translation practice,translators need rich knowledge reserves,rigorous academic attitude and certain translation skills.Meanwhile,proper translation methods and strategies are needed to achieve faithful and smooth translation.Through this translation practice,the writer intends to improve translation level by summarizing difficulties,raising translation strategies in translation process,and providing some references and appreciation for later translation of novels...