The English-Chinese Translation Of Political Text On Science And Technology Subject

With the development of society,a single type text cannot meet the reading needs in people’s life,and there are more and more texts which are mixed by different types of information,especially the integration of science and technology information and political content,which brings a great challenge to the translation work.This translation report,based on the English to Chinese translation practice of The Politics of Internet Security: Private Industry and the Future of the Web,explores how to handle translation difficulties of both technical content and political content in political text on science and technology subject.By analyzing the text typology and linguistic features of the original text,the translation of political content requires that translator maintains a firm and sober political sensitivity to restore objective facts,and applies amplification masterly,contributing to the readers understanding the original text better;the translation of science and technology content focuses on technical lexical translation which needs the translation approaches like “finding translation” and translating polysemy in specific context,aiming to accurately and clearly express the information of the source text.In specific process,the translator makes use of translation tools such as relevant literature,authoritative websites and online corpus.Based on case studies with representative characteristics,the final conclusion of this report is that the translation of political text on science and technology subject should take into account the linguistic characteristics and translation difficulties of both political text and science text,ensuring a correct and firm political stance for political content,and striving to accurately and clearly convey the information of the original text for science content.This translation practice enriches the translator’s translation skills and experiences.The most important is that the writing of this translation report can provide some reference for translating similar texts in the future.