A Report On The E-C Translation Of Explaining International Sporting Success:An International Comparison Of Elite Sport Systems And Policies In Six Countries

The translation material,selected from a journal named Sport Management Review,is a professional paper in the field of sport management.The introduction of advanced sport management theories from abroad can not only promote the communication between domestic and foreign sport management area,but also provide a new direction for domestic scholars to study sport management.The application of Nida's functional equivalence to academic papers translation is helpful because the theory requires that the translated text should reproduce the thought of the source text and the main objective of academic papers is to convey information.Thus,to achieve functional equivalence at lexical level,the translator used literal translation and contextual translation to deal with professional terms and common words with different meanings.At syntactical level,conversion of sentence patterns,sentence division and reconstruction can be adopted to cope with passive sentences and long complicated sentences so that the translated text can conform to the expression habit of target readers' language.At textual level,in order to achieve the closest equivalence in style,amplification and the adjustment of personal pronouns can be employed to reproduce the logicality and objectivity of academic papers.