A Report On The C-E Translation Of GIAHS Proposal Of Zhejiang Xianju Yumberry Composite System （Excerpt） ——Translation Of Terms Of Traditional Chinese Farming Activities

This report is based on the translation practice of the 2.2.3 section Knowledge System and Adopted Technologies of the GIAHS proposal of Zhejiang Xianju Yumberry Composite System.The text is translated into more than about 18,000 words.This section includes the time-tested technologies and knowledge system developed by Xianju natives under the traditional Chinese philosophy “harmony between human and nature”.It is written in a topic-based style and at the same time contains abundant traditional Chinese farming activity terms.However,due to terminological variation and strong local cultural characteristics,the ST terms and the TT terms may not be fully equivalent at the semantic,syntactic,and pragmatic levels.The author divides terminological variation in farming activity terms into two major categories based on León-Araz and Faber’s taxonomy: intralingual term variants and interlingual term variants.And she also employs the translation strategies proposed by LeónAraz and Faber,namely canonical translation,descriptive translation,functional translation,and cultural translation.In practice,the author resorts to the translation methods of publicity texts.To ensure the textual coherence,the author finds that omission,paraphrase and adding footnote are the useful approaches.In order to distinguish similar concepts while preserving cultural diversity amid globalization,the author takes literal translation plus transliteration as the main approach in dealing with interlingual term variants.After analyzing the characteristics of culture-bound terms,the author concludes that generalization,specification,and annotation outside the text can effectively preserve the local characteristics of culture-bound terms.