A Report On The Translation Of 12 Financial Articles From The Wall Street Journal Based On Translation Norms

This translation practice report reviews and summarizes the translation process of 12 financial articles in The Wall Street Journal,and analyses the problems encountered in the translation process and the strategies and methods to solve them.The Wall Street Journal was founded in 1889.With a circulation of over 2 million copies,it has become the largest paid circulation financial newspaper in the United States.It is a major global media outlet for financial news coverage,with enough content to influence daily international economic activity.This report focuses on the application of the theory of translation norms to the translation of the 12 financial texts from The Wall Street Journal,in the hope of providing domestic readers with more cutting-edge international financial information in an efficient and accurate manner.The theory of translation norms had a long history of development and provided ideas and methods for many translation studies,prompting translators to focus more on enhancing the readability of the translations.This report focuses on Gideon Toury’s theory of translation norms,followed by a detailed analysis of the process of the theory in the practice of translating 12 financial news articles into Chinese,giving a more detailed account of the text translation process and scrutinizing the translation texts and the results,mainly as follows: Under the initial norm,the translator determines the overall tendency of the translation and standardizes the target language and culture;under the preliminary norm,the translator selects The Wall Street Journal as the translation material;under the operational norm,the translator completes the translation process by applying translation methods such as choice of word meaning,switching of order and how to deal with translation problems such as unclear pronoun specificity,the treatment of subordinate clauses.In other words,this report describes the the strategies used in the Chinese translation of 12 financial texts in terms of the translation of titles and syntax according to Gideon Toury’s theory of translation norms,and discusses the strategies and methods employed to solve problems and difficulties in the translation process through rich analysis of examples,so as to offer a certain reference and absorbable experience for the future translation of English financial texts.