| The source text of this translation practice is “Effects of Spending Time in the Forest: Current Studies”,chapter 4 in Forest Therapy---The Potential of the Forest for Your Health.It explores the significance,influence and prospects of forest therapy.As economy and technology find their way into society,living standards are enjoying a rising popularity among people.But they also face stress from all sides such as anxiety and unease which are difficult to resolve.In addition to global warming and COVID-19,people’s physical and mental health has been greatly damaged.Thus it is a matter of great urgency to heal people in sub-health in busy tempo of life.Forest therapy,a form of natural therapy and a non-drug therapy,takes forests as a medium and puts people first to improve human physical and mental health and prevent diseases.However,the study on forest therapy is still at an initial stage and some projects are under exploration in China.In view of this fact,this translation practice can not only provide more forest therapy’s information of the development,current situation as well as research findings in Germany that is the birthplace of forest therapy,but also have guiding significance to the development of forest therapy in China.This book is an informative text which is to convey information and facts with numerous professional terms and complex sentences or paragraphs.Therefore,appropriate strategies need to be adopted in the target text to make the translation faithful to the originate text and acceptable for target readers.Under the guidance of Translation Variation Theory,the translator analyzes the source text and employs different translation strategies embracing addition,omission,editing,narration as well as combination to transfer information clearly and accurately.The translator hopes that this translation report can provide reference materials for forest therapy in China and provide some strategies for translating such texts. |
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