A Report On The Translation Of Economic Articles About The Covid-19 Pandemic From The Harvard Business Review Based On Chesterman’s Translation Norm Theory

Based on the background of the spread of the epidemic around the world,economic development has become a hot issue in today’s society.In order to meet the needs of domestic and international economic exchanges,the translation of economic texts related to the epidemic is imminent.The translation report selects some economic articles from the Harvard Business Review on topics related to the covid as the material of this translation practice.As a typical economic commentary text,the style of the source text is formal,professional,and the language is accurate.It is characterized by pertinence,timeliness and typicality.On the basis of the analysis of the source text,the author combines Chesterman’s translation norm theory,and takes his expectancy norms and professional norms as criterion to guide this translation practice.Under the guidance of Chesterman’s translation norm theory,this practice report explores concretely how translators can flexibly choose translation methods according to expectancy norms and professional norms in the process of translation practice,so as to convey the information of the source text and writing style,and meet the expectations of readers.This practice report mainly starts from the three levels of semantic strategies,syntactic strategies and pragmatic strategies,and uses specific translation techniques and methods such as word-class shift,unit shift,concretization,explication and implication,combined with the relevant examples of translation,to discuss how his expectancy norms and professional norms affect the choice of the translator in practice.This report is expected to provide reference and cases for the translation practice of the similar type of text in the future.