A Report On E-C Translation Of BHP Billiton 2018 Annual Report(Chapter 1)

Annual report is a systematic document that reviews the work of the company in the past year and provides general policies for the development of the next year.Under the background of economic globalization,the corporate annual report,regarded as a new channel of publicity,plays a crucial role in maintaining and advocating corporate image,optimizing allocation of resources,and promoting enterprise development.The translation practice selects BHP Annual Report 2018 as the original text,which mainly introduces the company’s general information,shareholders,director’s report,financial report and other relative information.Under the guidance of Nida’s functional equivalence theory,which emphasizes on the information conveying,this report analyzes the characteristics and features of the text and concludes problems and solutions in the translation.At the lexical level,literal translation is applied in the translation of proper nouns and word conversion is also applied.At the syntactic level,conversion of passive voice,linear translation and division of adverbial clause and restructuring of parenthesis are applied.At the textual level,conversion and omission of pronouns and addition and omission of conjunctive words are applied.Finally,the translator summarizes the translation practice to provide reference for the future translations on the corporate annual report.