A Report On The E-C Translation Of Traditional Ecological Knowledge And Global Pandemics:Biodiversity And Planetary Health Beyond Covid-19 (Excerpts)

In the post-pandemic era,after experiencing emotional tension and economic stagnation,mankind has begun to reflect and summarize the causes of the outbreak of COVID-19.Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Global Pandemics: Biodiversity and Planetary Health Beyond COVID-19 is a popular science work that links the cause of the outbreak with the current hot topic--ecology.It not only provides a reference for readers to understand relevant knowledge,but also tries to awaken the public’s attention to biodiversity and awareness of ecological environment protection.Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Global Pandemics: Biodiversity and Planetary Health Beyond COVID-19 is an informative text.Under the guidance of Newmark’s Communicative Translation Theory,this report takes the basic introduction-chapter 1 to 3-as the source text,and analyzes and solves the problems existing in the translation of the given informative texts.In the process of translation,the author has realized the great differences between Chinese and English in terms of vocabulary,sentence patterns,discourse and other aspects which affect the translation quality to a large extent.Therefore,this report analyzes the translation difficulties at the three levels of lexical,syntax and discourse and puts forward translation strategies.At the lexical level,the author mainly studies the translation problems such as diction,conversion,omission and compensation(including annotation and amplification).At the syntactic level,the author mainly explores two aspects: inversion and voice shift.At the discourse level,the author explores the cohesion within paragraphs.The report shows that translators can apply Communicative Translation Theory to solve the problems encountered in translation.The purpose of this report is to analyze the difficulties in translation with examples by combining Newmark’s Communicative Translation Theory,so as to provide methods for the translation of informative text in the context of epidemic.At the same time,the translation of excellent works on hot topics will not only benefit the public to learn scientific knowledge,but also provide literature for relevant background research.