A Report On The C-E Translation Of The Report On The Work Of Hebei Provincial Government In 2022

In recent years,China has played an increasingly important role on the world stage,and foreign friends are more eager to know China than ever before.As an important political publicity document,the government work report is an important way for friends around the world to understand China’s political,economic,cultural,medical,and other aspects of development.The Hebei Provincial Government Work Report is the most comprehensive,fastest,and most authoritative document for our foreign friends to quickly understand the development of Hebei Province.There is no official English version of the local government work report,and experts and scholars pay less attention to it.The translator aims at trying to translate the political texts.This report is based mainly on the English translation of the Report on the Work of the Hebei Provincial Government in 2022.The original text,with 15297 Chinese characters in total,is the work report of the Hebei Provincial Government delivered by Wang Zhengpu,governor of Hebei Province,at the fifth session of the 13 th People’s Congress of Hebei Province.In the process of translation,the author mainly encounters difficulties at the lexical,syntactic and rhetorical levels.Firstly,the difficulties at the lexical level include words with Chinese characteristics,numerical abbreviations,and four-character words.The translator mainly uses literal translation,amplification,and free translation methods.In addition,the difficulties at the syntactic level mainly include the translation of sentences without subjects,and long and difficult sentences.The major translation methods used are adding subjects,changing active voice into passive voice,dividing,linear translation,and comprehensive translation methods.At last,at the rhetorical level,the main difficulties encountered are in translating metaphor,personification and parallelism.The major translation methods include literal translation,free translation,conversion,omission,and reconstruction.This translation practice report intends to provide some guidance for students who want to improve the translation of Chinese political documents,and that attention can be paid to local government work reports.