A Report On The Translation Of Harbin Engineering University Website

Harbin Engineering University is one of ‘Seven Universities for National Defence’ directly under Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China.It is characterized by ‘three-marine and one-nuclear’(shipping industry,navy equipment,deep sea engineering and nuclear energetics nuclear power).Harbin Engineering University is regarded as a unit with ‘Outstanding Contribution Award for Aircraft Carrier Construction’.Harbin Engineering University has perfect teaching facilities,strong faculty and splended teaching concept,and it is a yearning university for students all over the country.More and more schools attach great importance to website construction in English with the development of network technology.Harbin Engineering University also requires a website in English.It not only embodies university image,but also acts as an important platform for communication between the university and society.In addition,the website in English can facilitate international university exchange and cooperation with increasingly frequent international communication.Therefore,the author is responsible for translating main parts of the website of Harbin Engineering University into English according to commission of Yutang Translation Service Co.,Ltd.The research direction in the paper is related to the famous university.The website translation of Harbin Engineering University is regarded as the research object.The website translation process for Harbin Engineering University is elaborated.The translation theory and skills acquired in the school are applied to practical translation work.The author will try his best to solve all difficulties encountered in translation with functional equivalence theory as guidance.In the paper,the practical work of website translation for Harbin Engineering University is described from four aspects mainly.Part I: website translation project for Harbin Engineering University is introduced in details mainly.Project tasks are elaborated from two aspects of client introduction and entrusted project requirements respectively.Part II: it is the key of research in the paper,namely task assignment of website translation for Harbin Engineering University,preparation before translation,translation flow and flow after translation-proofreading about website of Harbin Engineering University are mainly described.Part III: translation cases are analyzed from three aspects of text analysis,target text language processing,website translation method and skill.Part IV: work is summarized after translation.Meanwhile,the quality of the website translator is proposed from the perspective of individuals.