A Translation Report On Chinese Football Industry And Culture Development

Since the reform and opening-up,great achievements in politics,economy,culture and sport have been made by China.With the rising of China in international society,there is no time to lose for Chinese culture to go global.Serving as the most popular sport in the world,football is one of the most crucial channels to learn China so that Chinese football attracts extensive attention from all around the world.This report,mainly based on the translation of Chinese Football Industry and Culture Development,which incorporates a great deal of tables and figures as well as the latest data of football industry,analyzes the layout and scale of Chinese football industry in order that the current situation and problems of Chinese football can be demonstrated to the target readers.Being considered as political texts,the source text bristles with precise,standardized and laconic words,the meticulous and detailed sentences.Therefore,this report,concluding the characteristics of such texts,recording the whole process of translation,illustrates the common strategies and skills of translating such texts as well as summarizes the effective experience in the translation.Under the instruction of functional equivalence theory of Eugene A.Nida,this report attempts to explore the ingenious methods for both faithful to the source text and consistent with the language rules of English from the following three aspects: the lexical level,the syntactic level and the cultural level.Consequently,it applies a series of skills like conversion,omission,and combination in lexical level,adopts passive sentences as well as zero-subject sentences in syntactic level,and covers strategies in cultural level such as zero-equivalence and complete equivalence so as to solve the problem on how to achieve the dynamic equivalence in the course of translation.Last but not least,it is expected to attract more professionals and Chinese fans to deeply reflect on Chinese football and more importantly,to do their bits to push the wheel of the rise of Chinese football and the cultural exchange between China and foreign countries.At the same time,it is intended to provide inspiration and reference for other translators when translating such texts through this report.