| Documentary is an important part of film and television works,and is one of the main ways of cultural dissemination.The English translation of documentaries can help foreign readers understand Chinese culture,becoming a link connecting Chinese and foreign cultures.And Yet The Books is a documentary co-produced by bilibili and Beijing Xiaohe Culture Media Co.,Ltd.The documentary tells stories between book lovers and books,ignites people’s passion for reading books,and provides a reading guide for the audience.In this translation practice report,the subtitles of the third and fourth episodes of And Yet The Books are taken as the original text,the “three-dimensional transformation” of ecotranslatology is chosen as the theoretical basis,some classic cases in the documentary are selected for analysis,and appropriate solutions are proposed.From the linguistic,cultural and communicative dimensions,the translator selects classic cases such as four-character phrases,non-subject sentences,flowing sentences,culture-loaded words and colloquial expressions,and adopts the translation strategies of domestication and foreignization,as well as the translation methods of literal translation,free translation,omission and amplification to deal with various translation problems,with the aim of accurately conveying the information of the original text and achieving the ecological balance between the original text,the target text and the audience.Books are the carriers of culture,and the translator hopes that through this translation practice,foreigners can get to know more Chinese books,and learn more about Chinese culture,thus helping Chinese culture to go global.In addition,this practice report can also provide some ideas and methods for the relevant researchers engaged in subtitle translation practice. |
