A Report On The English-Chinese Translation Of All Thirteen:the Incredible Cave Rescue Of The Thai Boys’ Soccer Team(Excerpts)

This translated practice material is selected from the 2021 Newbery Silver Award-winning book,All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team.The book is a story of friendship,family,and cave exploration,centered on thirteen Thai junior soccer players and a coach.These stories are close to life and have some educational significance,aiming to help children readers establish a correct outlook on life and values.The book has thirty-one chapters,and the translator has selected ten chapters for translation.Currently,there is no Chinese translation of this book.In order to respond to the reading experience of child readers,the translator selects expressions readily accepted by children in translation.Therefore the translator uses the Skopos theory as the theoretical guide to analyze difficult problems.Under the guidance of the Skopos rule,the translator uses four-letter words,adds footnotes and conversion to enhance the acceptability of the translated text;under the guidance of the coherence rule,the translator uses parallelism and adjustment of sentence structures to make the translation coherent to with clarifying the sentences’ logic taking into the whole text account;under the guidance of the fidelity rule,the translator uses paraphrase and amplification to make the translation faithful to the context by taking the context account.