| This is a translation project on From Apes to Cyborgs New Perspectives on Human Evolution,from chapter five to chapter six,written by Claudio Tuniz and Patrizia Tiberi Vipraio and published in 2020.The text tells the origin,evolution and future development of human beings from a macro perspective.From Apes to Cyborgs New Perspectives on Human Evolution,as a social science history book,has the characteristics of information text such as professional,objective and rigorous.Under the guidance of the theory of “function plus loyalty” proposed by Christine Nord,a German functionalist translation theorist,the key and difficult points of this translation practice have been discussed from the perspectives of lexical and sentence translation.For the translation of common words,the author needs to accurately grasp its basic meaning,and tries to enhance the quality of the translation with various translation methods in the context of the specific context;for the professional vocabularies,the author needs to take advantage of professional materials,helping readers understand its true meaning,so as to make up for their knowledge gap.In addition,there are many structural differences between English and Chinese,which have brought some difficulties to translation.In order to achieve the faithfulness of information and the smoothness of expression,the author adopts diverse translation strategies.According to the theory of “function plus loyalty”,the author hopes to meet the reading needs of target language readers while accurately transmitting text information.In the process of translation,the author has further exercised the ability of applying theories into practice.At the same time,to translate such texts will help readers to broaden their cognition,inspire them to think more deeply about the future of mankind,and contribute to cultural exchange and dissemination as well,which is of great practical significance. |
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