A Project Report On The E-C Translation Of Seven Business Habits That Drive High Performance(8^th-14^th Chapters)

This project report takes the Chinese translation of 7 Business Habits That Drive High Performance as the research object,excerpts 8^thto 14^thchapters of the book as the source text,and makes comprehensive analysis on major difficulties appearing in the process of translation.7 Business Habits That Drive High Performance,authored by American Master,Nicholas S.Barnett,mainly talks about how to cultivate constructive organization culture as a way to improve efficiency.As such,the translation project of this kind of book is dramatically conducive to introduce advanced enterprise management experiences and evolve domestic company administration.Guided by Relevance Translation Theory,this project report summarizes major difficulties faced by the author during the translation process in terms of lexical,syntactical and semantic aspects,and makes a reason analysis on why these difficulties appear from the perspective of both language differences and thinking pattern varieties.Judging from the reasons that difficulties take place,the lexical difficulties are mainly synonymous pairs and abstract nouns,which are solved by the translator according to their context effects through two kinds of translation strategies,namely combination and changing part of speech;difficulties at syntactical level are how to deal with elliptical sentences and compound sentences,which are tackled through amplification and restructuring;semantic difficulties are mainly how to translate semantic extensions and discourses,which are solved through paraphrase and discourse coherence.In the end,the report author sums up the experiences and inspiration harvested in this translation project with the hope to provide some reference values for the following translation of enterprise management texts.