A Report On The Translation Of Chapter 19 Of Essentials Of Genetics

With the development of science and technology,a lot of research papers and books concerning technology of genetic engineering have been published in the world.Therefore,it is essential to translate the English research papers and books about genetic engineering into Chinese,especially those published in the developed countries.The material for this translation,selected from Chapter 19 of Essentials of Genetics,is about the latest development and results of the genetic engineering,which is characterized by many scientific words and complicated sentences.The methods and skills of scientific translation are reflected in the examples of case analysis and the Catford’s translation shift is helpful to the scientific translation.The SDL Trados 2015 is used as computer-aided software in the whole process of translation.The background and significance of the translation task is introduced in detail.The process of translation is divided into three steps and all the case analyses can reflect the pragmatic nature of the category shift and level shift of the Catford’s theory.The structural shift,class shift,unit shift and intra-system shift mentioned in the report belong to the category shift and they are the most useful ones in terms of the process of translation.The intra-system shift is used for translating special scientific words and the shift of the part of speech can reflect the class shift.The translation of sentences with passive voices,postpositive attributes or postposition adverbials is combined with the method of structural shift.The translation of long and complicated sentences can reflect the importance of combination of category shift.The report is summarized by inspiration gotten from the translation task.