A Report On E-C Translation Of Where Have All The Senior Women Gone? (Excerpt) Under The Guidance Of Skopos Theory

With the development and progress of civilization,the education received by women has increased dramatically all over the world,and so has the proportion of women in the workforce.However,after women enter the employment market,they encounter many problems with career development.The material selected for this translation practice report,Where Have All the Senior Women Gone,discusses this phenomenon and provides some valuable insights into it.Through interviews and conversations with senior professional women,the author,Ines Wichert,examines the difficulty of sustaining career advancement for women in the workforce and proposes nine critical job assignments for women’s career development.In the first three chapters of the book,Ines Wichert explains in details the problems women encounter in the workplace.Only with a clear understanding of the problems and phenomena can we make feasible suggestions.Only by reading translations can the domestic readers understand the phenomenon and then hopefully grow interested in reading the solutions to the problems.In this translation practice report,translator introduces the background and significance of the translation practice,describes the whole process of translation activities including preparation before translation and proofreading after translation.Considering that translation material is informative text,translator adopts the Skopos theory as the guiding theory.In this translation practice report,translator introduces the history and main contents of Skopos theory.Translator subsequently summarizes the concepts mentioned in this translation practice and analyzes the characteristic of source text.Special cases from the first three chapters are analyzed in the translation report through lexical and syntactic level.For the translation difficulties encountered in the translation process,translator adopts translation strategies such as interpretation,direct translation,free translation and conversion to produce a translation that is faithful to the source text and the target reader.Finally,the whole translation practice is summarized.