A Report On Translation Of Throwaway Nation:The Ugly Truth About American Garbage(Excerpts)

The original English book Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage summarizes the current situation of resource waste in the United States and provides some suggestions for resource reuse.For its translation,scientificity should be placed into the first place,while appropriate translation skill should be adopted for realizing the purpose of promoting professional knowledge to the public.Skopos Theory is the most important part of the German functionalist translation theory,which does not excessively pursue the perfect fit between the target text and the original text and advocates that the translator should analyze the purpose of the original text at first,then find the most suitable translation method instead.This translation practice targets the popular science texts and is guided by Skopos Theory.In this article,the whole process of translation is reviewed at first,and then the author sorts out its core viewpoints and three principles,explaining the research of popular science translation under the guidance of Skopos theory.Then,examples are used to explore the strategies that should be followed in popular science translation,further proving the reasons that this theory can be used as a guiding theory for popular science translation.Through cases analysis,it is found that at the lexical level,translation and other methods should be used to produce faithful and coherent translations by applying the method of modification,demetaphor and explanation;at the syntactic level,the addition and negation conversion methods can be used to achieve coherent and faithful effects;At the text level,popular science texts have the characteristics of rigorous logic and coherent writing,where addition and anaphor could be used.Through this practice,the author acquires a lot of environmental protection knowledge and terms,and combines theory with practice,analyzing the translation skill of popular science text based on the Skopos theory.This author hopes to provide some reference for popular science translation research..