A Report On The E-C Translation Of Ageless: The New Science Of Getting Older Without Getting Old (Excerpts)Old (Excerpts)

As we ageing,our bodies and minds will begin to degenerate,and the possibility of suffering from senile diseases will increase,which will inevitably make people begin to look for treatments to delay ageing.The source text Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old selected by the author takes the experimental research of scientists as a clue,mainly summarizes the relevant exploration and development trends in the field of anti-ageing,and highlights several anti-ageing therapies that have been developed and their practice.This report illustrates the application of Eugene Nida’s functional equivalence theory to informational texts.The source text belongs to the field of biomedicine,so the text has many terms,complex structures and rigorous logic,which is challenging for the author.Therefore,based on the functional equivalence theory,under the guidance of the four translation standards emphasized by the functional equivalence theory,the author selects three levels of vocabulary,syntax and text,applies the translation strategies of literal translation and free translation,the translation techniques such as meaning extension and word class conversion to analyze the translation difficulties encountered by the author in the process of translation,such as semantic clarity,structural restructuring,logical manifestation,discursive cohesion and coherence,so as to illustrate the practical guiding significance of functional equivalence theory in translating informational texts,with a view to helping other translators to solve the translation problems in the translation of informational texts,such as term expression and processing of long difficult sentences.