A Report On The Translation Of Built For Global:Navigating International Business From Silicon Valley(Chapters 5-6):Strategies To Reproduce Professionality And Readability

This report is based on an English-Chinese translation project.The text of the project is taken from the book entitled Built for Global:Navigating International Business from Silicon Valley.Written by American writers Robert S.Pearlstein and Janet A.Gregory,the book recounts the story of how the American companies have successfully grown into global ones in the background of economic globalization.And it is hoped that this translation project could provide latest successful experience and strategies of going global for Chinese companies that are interested in expanding their business overseas.Taking the translation of the fifth and sixth chapters of the book as its research object,the report aims to study how to reproduce the professionality and readability,two of the most prominent features source text has,from two aspects:word translation and sentence translation.The report consists of four parts.The first part is the introduction of the translation project.The second part focuses on the translation process,including pre-translation,translation and post-translation.And Part Three deals with cases studies of translation practice.By combining the communicative translation theory with specific examples,this part analyzes and summarizes the strategies that help reproduce the professionality and readability of source text.Approaches of word translation include the extension of meaning,conversion,idiomatic translation,adding interpretation and annotation,"your-attitude" and translating-er into "the one" while methods of sentence translation touch upon amplification,positive and negative translation,adjustment of the sentence order and omission.The last part of the report first sums up the experience accumulated from the translation practice,then points out some limitations of the author’s translation and enlightenments the author get from it.The author of the paper hopes that her translation practice can provide guidance and reference for the translators who will be engaged in the relevant translation in the future.