An E-C Translation Report On A Sustainable Bioeconomy:The Green Industrial Revolution(Chapters 8-9)

Under the guidance of Nida’s functional equivalence theory,this is an E-C translation practice report on A Sustainable Bioeconomy:The Green Industrial Revolution.The book was published by Springer Press in April 2017,an academic work co-authored by Professor Mika Sillanpaa and Dr.Mohamed Chaker Ncibi,who are both from the Green Chemistry Laboratory in Lappeenranta University of Technology,Finland.With the long history of utilizing biotechnology among human beings,the research and development related to bio-economy are long-standing too."Bio-economy" is based on the sustainable biological resources and biotechnologies,which plays a vital role in promoting the progress of human civilization.At present,bio-economy is still a relatively new concept in the world,and the translations that systematically introduce sustainable bio-economy are relatively rare.Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 are selected as the translation material,which analyse the development status and opportunities of the bio-economy systematically,evaluates its economic impact,and further demonstrates the achievements and proposes relevant critical policies.Considering the characteristics of informative texts,the translator adopts Eugene Nida’s functional equivalence theory to guide the translation practice,and elaborates on his translation thoughts and theoretical points in brief.The translator focuses on the translation of terminology related to bioenergy and Ecology-related subject nouns,as well as long and difficult sentences related to bioeconomy.According to the principles of functional equivalence theory,the translator focuses on the semantic equivalence of terminology in the aspect of lexical equivalence;translation methods and techniques,such as amplification,omission,conversion and splitting,are adopted to achieve functional equivalence in syntactic aspect;for stylistic equivalence,the translator pays attention to the coherence and fluency of the text,so as to express the author’s intentions accurately and to summarize the translation methods concerning bioeconomy texts for translators.For readers who are interested in learning about related knowledge of bio-economy,this book is a valuable reference.For the translator,this translation project expands her professional knowledge in the field of sustainable bio-economy,help her accumulate technical terms,improve her practical ability in translation and further enable her to accumulate experience for future translation work.