| The world today is now severely challenged by the escalating risks.All countries should take actions as a community for future changes.In this context,The United Kingdom(UK)’s government used the opportunity of its presidency of G7 in 2021 to appoint Impact Taskforce(ITF)to promote impact-driven economies and societies in the long term.ITF explored and concluded how to accelerate the private capital mobilized for the public interest at scale and how to ensure that the impact is real.This report is based on a translation project undertaken by a translation company in which the translator was personally involved.The translation material is the final work report of ITF,Time to deliver: mobilising private capital at scale for people and planet.The original material of this translation practice is financial text,containing a lot of financial knowledge and expressions,which is highly professional and practical.It is hoped that this practice report is conducive to promoting the spread of the ideals of impact investment in China,enriching the cases of translation of financial text,and contributing to the development of the translation discipline.Toury’s translation norms theory is a target-oriented descriptive translation theory,which requires that the translation should comply with the norms of targeted text and the expectations of readers,and conform to the expression habits of the targeted language.The translator chooses Toury’s translation norms theory to analyzes the practice from three levels,namely,preliminary norms,initial norms and operational norms.The translator analyzes the selection of material according to preliminary norms,analyzes the overall tendency of translation according to initial norms,and discusses how to solve the specific problems encountered in the translation of such texts,such as the translation of abstract expressions,the handling of logical relations,the application of quadrisyllabic words,and the segmentation of long sentences.This paper aims to explore the feasibility of applying Toury’s translation norms theory to the translation of financial texts,and the influences of this theory to the translation behaviors,so as to provide more references for the translation of financial texts in the future. |
