A Practice Report On The Translation Of Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Financial Report Issued By The Walt Disney Company(Excerpts)

With the development of world economic integration,the links between countries and regions are becoming closer.In this context,a growing number of the multinational companies are expanding to other national markets.However,due to the complexity of local markets,some multinational companies fail to integrate into these markets and become less competitive.As a global entertainment,the Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries can still maintain a clear leading edge in the fierce market competition because of its advanced operating and financial management.Therefore,establishing the internal management system plays an important role for some enterprises.The translator chooses Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Financial Report to provide more information for domestic economists,and advanced financial management methods for the domestic enterprises.The paper is a project report on the translation of Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Financial Report issued by the Walt Disney Company.Based on the analysis of primary source and extensive data,the original report can be divided into three aspects,including Basic Overview of Operation and Financial Management,In-depth Analysis of Financial Management and Basic Description of Operating Results.The original report objectively introduces the operating and financial situation of Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries,which provides learning material to domestic experts who study in the field of the advanced financial management,and enlightenment for domestic enterprises.The translator chooses the first two chapters,Basic Overview of Operation and Financial Management and In-depth Analysis of Financial Management,as the translation task.The practice report mainly analyzes the features of the text and the problems during the translation process.The problems in lexical level mainly include the choice of word’s meaning and parts of speech,and the problems in syntactic level mainly include the attributive clauses,adverbial clauses and passive sentences.According to the text features and purpose of the Annual Financial Report,the translator mainly uses Functional Equivalence Theory of Eugene A.Nida as the theoretical guidance to complete the translation task.The translator chooses the meaning of the words according to the financial characteristics and collection relations,and parts of speech according to Conversion.The translator uses Omitting,Splitting and Recasting to solve the syntactic problems.