A Report On E-C Translation Of The Secret To Cybersecurity

With the development of science and technology,the Internet has become a major channel to get and access to information.However,the risk of cybersecurity always comes along with it."How can I avoid phishing?","How to set a password with higher security?"-We may be able to find out the answer in The Secret to Cybersecurity,which was written by the former FBI agent,Scott E.Augenbaum.In the book,he lists the most common cases of cybercrime in the modern society and provides solutions at the end of each chapter.The whole book consists of 18 chapters.The translator selects the first six chapters of the book to translate and writes an English-Chinese translation practice report.In this report,the translator briefly introduces the translation background and meaning,analyzes the linguistic and stylistic features of the source text.Hans J.Vermeer's Skopos theory is taken as the guiding theory to help smooth the way in translating.This theory mainly includes Skopos rule,coherence rule and fidelity rule.With the guidance of these rules,the difficulties the translator met in translating have been properly dealt with.To handle technical terms,annotation has been applied;To deal with the polysemy,extension has been adopted.Addition,omission,combination,division and liberation are for long sentences.Personal reference is clarified by given the specific subject,which avoids misunderstanding and ambiguity.Reconstruction is applied to achieve the coherence of the target text.Finally,the translator summarizes the translation practice at the end of the report and points out her gains and shortcomings,hoping that the target text can improve the cybersecurity awareness of enterprises and individuals and provide reference for the research of cybersurity translation through the discussion of translation strategy.