A Practice Report On The English-Chinese Translation Of Handbook Of Petroleum Processing(Excerpt)

With the quickened pace of science and technology,increasing technology exchanges between different countries propels the development of scientific English featured as the international language.Based on the favorable development momentum of scientific English text at present,the translator selects the petroleum refining text as the source text.Handbook of Petroleum Processing mainly describes the process with a schematic flow diagram,development of the material balance,design characteristics of the units,as well as a design example in atmospheric and vacuum crude distillation.By analyzing the textual features of Handbook of Petroleum Processing,this practice report is completed under the Text Typology theorized by Katharina Reiss who serves as a translator of Functionalism School in Germany.This translation practice report is divided into four chapters.Chapter one introduces the background and significance of this translation practice.Chapter two describes the implementation of before-translation,mid-translation and after-translation.In chapter three,the case study analyzes the typical instances from the three levels of vocabulary,sentence and discourse.Chapter four summarizes translation methods together with acquisitions and inadequacies for this translation practice.As a result,this practice report leads to fruitful personal improvement of professional knowledge in scientific English translation,especially in the petroleum refining field,and promotes individual translation ability and skills concerning scientific English texts.It also provides reference and guidance from the perspective of professional knowledge as well as translationapproaches for interpreters and translators in terms of vocabulary,sentence,discourse and style,ultimately presenting a more accurate and qualified version.