A Report On E-C Translation Of Fiscal Policy In Europe:Controversies Over Rules,Mutual Insurance,and Centralization

This report is on the English-Chinese translation of Fiscal Policy in Europe:Controversies over Rules,Mutual Insurance,and Centralization,chosen from Journal of Economic Perspectives.The source text provides the readers with an overall understanding of national budget deficits and debts,economic differences between core and periphery countries,pan-European deposit insurance,and the impact of COVID-19 on European finances.In the process of translation,the translator encounters many difficulties.While exploring the solutions to these difficulties,it’s found that Peter Newmark’s text typology theory and communicative translation theory can be well applied to the selection of translation strategy and methods.According to text typology theory,the source text falls into informative text.Concerning the translation strategy and methods,communicative translation remains the major strategy adopted by the translator.With the help of communicative translation,the translator divides the difficulties into three aspects: linguistic difference,cultural gap and cognitive difference.To address linguistic difference,the translator uses parts of speech conversion,division and restructuring of long and complicated sentence structure and shift of voice.To bridge cultural gap,the translator mainly adopts free translation and transliteration,so that idioms and personal names can be well translated.To overcome cognitive difference,the translator analyses the context and gives annotations,so that target readers can have a better understanding of professional terminologies in the source text.Through this translation practice,the translator’s translation skills and subject knowledge in fiscal field have been greatly improved.In the meantime,more Chinese readers can have an in-depth understanding of the economic situation of Europe and even the world.The report can also serve as a reference for those who are interested in studying the translation of economic journals under the guidance of text typology theory.