| Nowadays,the emergence of social media has rapidly changed human interaction and life rhythms.In the face of the numerous and complicated social media,it is an essential issue whether people can handle their relationship with social media,and minimize the negative impact of social media.By translating the source text,the translator hopes to appeal to people to give up the habit of network addiction and face up to life rather than indulge themselves in the virtual world on the Internet.The source text of this practical project is Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now written by Jaron Lanier,the pioneer of Silicon Valley technology.The translator chose the preface and the contents of the first and seventh chapters of this book as the task of translation practice and wrote this translation practice report accordingly.The content of the source text is close to life,the language is refined and concise,but the content is abstract and many vogue words are used,which increases the difficulty of translation.In this translation practice,under the guidance of communicative translation theory,the translator the translator guided by the theory of communicative translation,adopted such translation techniques comprehensively as naturalization,amplification,lexical cohesion and other translation skills from lexical,syntactic and textual levels,trying to provide readers with smooth,clear and readable translations.To complete the translation of informative text with high quality,during the translation,the translator needs to take into account the different language functions of the same text,comprehensively adopts translation techniques to convey the information accurately and smoothly in the text and summarizes the translation techniques.The value and significance of this report can be reflected in the following two aspects:firstly,through the application of relevant translation theories,the translator can accumulate and summarize the translation techniques guided by communicative translation to further improve its translation level.Secondly,the translator hopes to provide some references for translators who may be engaged in the translation of social media. |
