A Report On The Translation Of Understanding Ageing For Nurses And Therapists(chapter 10,11)from The Perspective Of Vinay And Darbelnet’s Model

With the current rapid development of technology,health care and other industries,life expectancy has significantly increased.An increasing number of countries around the world are experiencing varying degrees of aging,including China.The source texts for this translation practice report are Chapter 10 “Palliative and End of Life Care” and Chapter 11 “Self-Neglect and loneliness in Older Age”from the collection of scholarly papers in the field of nursing,called Understanding Ageing for Nurses and Therapists.The source texts are intended to provide relevant practitioners with practical information on elderly care,with a focus on providing medical and nursing guidance and advice.In this translation practice,under the guidance of Vinay and Darbelnet’s model,and according to their seven translation techniques,the translator concretely analyzes the application of this model at the lexical and syntactic levels.At the vocabulary level,the focus of this translation practice includes translation of technical terms,compound words,words needing conversion and words having no equivalents in the target language,for which the translator mainly adopts the translation techniques like borrowing,calque and transposition.At the syntactic level,the translator mainly adopts techniques such as modulation and literal translation to solve the translation problems of different sentence types,such as passive sentences,periodic sentences and attributive clauses.The translation of the source text can provide Chinese nurses and therapists with foreign nursing experience,allowing them to provide quality care for the old in a wider range of care settings.At the same time,by summarizing the problems and solutions encountered in the translation,the translator expects to provide a reference for translating such kind of texts.