A Report On E-C Translation Of ACER’s Final Assessment Of The EU Wholesale Electricity Market Design(Excerpts)

The EU’s wholesale electricity market design has long been the subject of debate in sci-tech,academic as well as policy circles,which impacts changes needed to deliver the clean energy transition.The source text is excerpted from the report ACER ’S Final Assessment of the EU Wholesale Electricity Market Design released by the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators,and it is an informative sci-tech text.The translation practice is based on the third and fourth chapters,which respectively focus on benefits and remaining implementation challenges and ways to improve the EU wholesale electricity market.Guided by Newmark’s Communicative Translation Theory,the translator strives to provide target language readers with reading experiences as similar as possible to what source language readers gain while accurately conveying the necessary information and removing obscurity,achieving the communicative purpose of the source text.The translator adopts corresponding translation strategies to cope with the difficulties encountered in translation practice.At the lexical level,she adopts amplification in dealing with professional technical words,deducts the specific meanings of common words in the specific context,and makes the sentence smoother through the conversion of parts of speech.At the syntactical level,for adverbial clauses and sentences in passive voice,the translator adjusts the order of sentence elements and transforms the voice respectively.At the same time,for complex sentences,the translator decides to split and restructure them.At the textual level,the translator restores pronouns or adds conjunctions to realize the cohesion and coherence of the translated text.The translator obtains more in-depth knowledge of the wholesale electricity market and improves her English-Chinese conversion and translation ability in practice.In the practice report,she discusses how to provide appropriate strategies for sci-tech text translation under the guidance of Communicative Translation Theory,providing a reference for the translation of sci-tech texts from English into Chinese.