A Translation Project Report Of On The Marsh:A Year Surrounded By Wildness And Wet(Excerpts)

The thesis is an English-Chinese translation project report.The translation material is excerpted from the first two chapters of On the Marsh:A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet by Simon Barnes.The content of this part is as follows: because the garden of the house bought by the author of the book is backed by a marsh,the author worries that the marsh might be lost to development or intensive farming,he buys the marsh and manages it as a conservation area,working with the Wildlife Trust to ensure it will become as appealing as possible to all species.In this translation project,the translator chooses the Semantic Translation and Communicative Translation theories of Peter Newmark as theoretical guidance.If the translation is too rigid in the form of the original text in the process of translation,the translation text will not conform to Chinese expression due to the differences of vocabulary,syntax and other aspects between English and Chinese.Therefore,the translator hopes to produce a translation that enables Chinese readers to get the same feelings as English readers by using the translation methods of word meaning extension,part of speech conversion,word order adjustment,literal translation and free translation,and sentence integration and separation under the guidance of Peter Newmark‘s translation theories.Through the analysis of specific translation examples,the translator holds that Newmark‘s Semantic Translation and Communicative Translation theories have a strong practicability in translation practice,which can effectively avoid ?-Translationese-?.And through this translation practice,the translator has a deeper understanding and better command of the translation theories of Newmark and has also improved translation ability.