A Report On E-C Translation Of Power Density-A Key To Understanding Energy Sources And Uses(Excerpts) Based On The Mode Of MTPE

Power Density-A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses is an energy-related book written by Vaclav Smil.In this book,Vaclav Smil argues that power density is a key determinant of the nature and dynamics of energy systems.Any understanding of complex energy systems must rely on quantitative measures of many fundamental variables.This book has extremely important for the development of renewable energy and energy utilization in my country.The translator chose the second chapter of this book to translate.The excerpt belongs to the informative technological text,which means a large number of sentence patterns,terminologies,and logic in the book need to be clarified carefully in translation.However,what is different from the common scientific and technological informative texts is that the content of this excerpt is less professional and the language is more reader-friendly.This segment is translated by a combination of machine translation and post-editing,in order to improve translation efficiency.In machine translation,although the speed of translation is faster and the translation of terms and words is relatively accurate,it still performs unideal in terms of sentence logic.Frequently occurred problems include translationese,logic disorder,omission,redundancy etc.,requiring post-editing for reprocessing.Also,the report has summarized the upside and downside of machine translation and started post-editing based on lexical,syntactical and discourse level,correct ed the mistranslation of machine translation,and given the edited version.At the end of the report,the author summarizes and reflects on the mode of machine translation + post-editing.Also,the future expectation is also concluded.The purpose of writing this report is to explore the feasibility of this method and provide ideas for translator ’s future translation tasks.