A Report On E-C Translation Of The Truth About Girls And Boys (Chapter 8-10)

The translation material of the practical report is selected from chapter eight to chapter ten of The Truth About Girls and Boys,which belongs to educational psychology material with the rigorous and complex language structure and many factual examples and data analysis.The excerpts quote a large number of statistics from authoritative institutions and various experiments to prove that there is no congenital difference between boys and girls from three aspects: caring ability,the ideal classroom and single-sex education school.This source text belongs to information and vocative function type text,which not only pays attention to the authenticity and accuracy of information,but also pays attention to the readability and transmission of information.This report is mainly composed of four parts: task description,translation process,case study and conclusion.Task description includes overview of source text,characteristics of the source text,structure of the report.The process description involves translation preparation,translation process,proofreading and guiding principle.Case study is key point of the report,which combines translation techniques with Newmark's communicative translation theory to analyze the problems encountered in translation from the semantic,syntactic and textual levels.Finally,the translator summarizes the translation practice from the translation limitations as well as the enlightenment and suggestions for the future translation.This translation practice improves the translator's translation ability.The difficulties encountered in the process of translation helps to improve the translator's ability in solving difficulties in the future work and study.In addition,it also enriches the translator's experience in writing translation and lays a good foundation for future work and learning.