A Report On The Translation Of Energy Security:Policy Challenges And Solutions For Resource Efficiency(Excerpts)

With the rapid development of global economy,energy plays a vital role in national social development and economic growth.Simultaneously,the increase in energy use increase also brings some issues,such as energy resource shortage,the shattered equilibrium of supply and demand,energy security,higher price,and environmental destruction.Therefore,people are concerned about energy security and energy efficiency.The source text is excerpted from Energy Security Policy Challenges and Solutions for Resource Efficiency.This text describes the evolution of the concept of energy security and energy scenarios proposed by countries worldwide.Besides,RES has the potential to become one of the principal contributors supporting the energy security and sustainable development of both industrialized and developing countries.The source material belongs to an informative text in accordance with Newmark’s text type theory.Thus,the translator selects the communicative translation theory to guide the translation.Under the guidance of communicative translation theory,the translator focuses on accurately conveying the information in the source text.By adopting the target readers’ language and culture,the translator can make the target text more smooth,more concise,more readable,and meet target readers’ expectations.The first part of the report is the task description which introduces the research background,topic,significance,and source text.The second part is the process description that includes pre-translation preparation,the introduction of the translation process and quality control.The third part is the case analysis.Under the guidance of communicative translation theory,translation issues at lexical,syntactic,and discourse levels were solved by the translator who used literal translation,amplification,omission,conversion of nominalization,structural adjustment,and translation of the passive voice.It is expected that this report will provide reference for the application of communicative translation theory in scientific text translation.