A Report On The Translation Of Heartland Strong:How Rural New Zealand Can Change And Thrive(Chapters One-Four)

The report is based on the translation of Heartland Strong:How Rural New Zealand can Change and Thrive(Chapters 1-4).The editors of this book,Margaret Brown,Penny Payne,and William(Bill)Kaye-Blake,come from different specialties.The cross-disciplinary collaboration working together to explore and study rural issues and rural community resilience is a groundbreaking innovation for the completion of this book and exploration in this field.The first four chapters mainly discuss the changes and challenges in the development of rural communities in New Zealand in the past 20 years,and the resilience of rural communities from five aspects,that is,society,culture,environment,institution and economy.The translation project for English-Chinese translation is under the guidance of Reiss’s text typology theory.The translation report includes the following four chapters:task description,process description,case study and conclusions.The first chapter summarizes the background,introduction and significance of the translation task.The second chapter discusses the translation process,which includes pre-translation preparation for searching translation materials,analyzing the stylistic features of the source text and introducing the theoretical foundation for translation;major difficulties in translating titles,vocabularies and sentences;proofreading and revising.Based on the difficulties mentioned in Chapter 2,the translator makes a detailed analysis on how to handle them with typical cases in the third chapter.The last chapter summarizes the gains from the translation task and the limitations of the translation.