A Report On The Translation Of The Mini Farming Bible:The Complete Guide To Self-Sufficiency On 1/4 Acre(Chapter One)

The translator chooses an agricultural book The Mini Farming Bible:The Complete Guide to Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre as the source text materials for her translation practice report This book is written by Brett L.Markham,who is an engineer,third-generation farmer,and polymath.Using the methods explained in his book,he runs a profitable certified naturally grown mini farm on less than half an acre.This book provides a complete set of farming guidelines,including buying and saving seeds,starting seedlings,establishing raised beds,soil fertility practices,composting,dealing with pest and disease problems,crop rotation,farm planning,and so on.The translator chooses Part ? of the book,Basics of Mini Farming,as the source text for this English-Chinese translation practice.This report includes four parts:task introduction,translation process,case analysis and summary of translation practice.Firstly,the translator introduces the source text and significance of the task.Secondly the translator describes the translation process,and analyzes the text type of the source text and the difficulties in translation.And on the basis of the communicative translation theory,the translator analyzes the translation examples lexically and syntactically,and the translator adopts such methods as conversion of part of speech,determination of word meaning,conversion,division and adjustment of the sentence order to translate the source text.Finally,the translator summarizes the gains in translation,and the insufficiencies of the translation.