A Reflective Research Report On The E-C Translation Of The Situation In Asia(Chapters ?—?)

The reflective research report is based on the translation of the first three chapters of The Situation in Asia.The author,Owen Lattimore,a pioneer who studied Chinese frontier theory in the United States,is also a prominent geopolitical scientist.The Situation in Asia marked the development and improvement of Lattimore's frontier theory.He applied his own frontier theory to the analysis of Asia,highlighted the important position of Asia,and analyzed the inevitability of Asia's re-emergence in the meantime.The reflective research report mainly analyzes the selected text and problems the translator found in the process of translation as well as the corresponding solutions.Firstly,the report briefly introduces the background and content of the source text and significance of the translation practice.Then,the translator analyzes the characteristics of the source text from the perspective of lexical,syntactic and textual level.Thirdly,the main part of the report introduces some typical problems during the translation process,such as the scarcity of background information on proper nouns,the logic analysis of English long complicated sentences,and the appropriate expression of personal references.In the meanwhile,the translator comes up with some related solutions,that is information compensation for proper nouns,splitting and logic reorganization in the translation process of English long complicated sentences,and repetition and zero substitution for personal references.Finally,the translator summarizes the problems encountered and related solutions in the entire translation process.Through the reflection on this translation process,the translator deepens the understanding of the above three problems and further grasps the corresponding translation methods,in order to give the relevant strategies in creative applications.