An E-C Translation Report On Janus V. American Federation Of State,county,and Municipal Employees(Excerpt)

The source text of this translation practice report is an excerpt of Janus v.American Federation of State,County,and Municipal Employees,written by Alito,the justice of the Supreme Court of United States.The decision states important judgments on the agency fee mechanism of the trade union.Thus,it requires the translator to have a full understanding of the judicial decisions and jurisprudence of the United States.To this end,in order to ensure the accuracy of terminology,the translator takes advantage of the Tmxmall corpus and the term base established by Trados.In addition,quality control on translation is guaranteed through self-review,peer-review and supervisorreview.This translation report introduces the background information and the author of the source text and emphasizes the practical significance of our judicial reform and the modernization of the judicial system by translating judicial decisions of American courts into Chinese.Then,based on the text typology and the analysis of source text,the text type of the source text is an informative text.In accordance with the classification of this text type,the translator determines to use literal translation as the translation method.Then,the translator analyzes the translation difficulties of legal terms,long and complex sentences and case names.By summarizing and reflecting on the combination of the text typology and the English to Chinese translation practice of the judicial decision,this report introduces the translator's experience in the translation practice,and further proposes the requirement when translating judicial decisions between different legal systems.It is hoped to make some contributions to promote the English to Chinese translation of similar judicial decision.