A Report On The Translation Of History,Disrupted:How Social Media And The World Wide Web Have Changed The Past(Chapters 2&3)

History,Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past overviews how the Web and social media have reshaped and changed the past,delivering fundamental significance.An academic publication in humanities and social sciences,which is distinct from sophisticatedly embedded structures of such kind,the text is concise and succinct,with short and medium-long sentences conveying strong logic.This seemingly underestimated style of simple English,however,still causes translation difficulties.Terminology,abstract nouns and collocations of adverbs with adjectives,to name a few.The translator picks the second and the third chapters from the source text as translation material.Guided by the translation compensation theory of Xia Tingde,he adopts certain compensation methods to tackle lexical and textual difficulties encountered.When it comes to word translation,the translator uses specification to tackle abstract nouns.For terminology,he resorts to annotation within text and annotation outside text.Amplification is utilized to solve collocations of adverbs with adjectives.At the textual level,the translator opts to add logical conjunction within and between sentences to ensure coherence.Translation compensation is conducive to dealing with informative texts.It instructs translators to adopt specific strategies and skills to minimize translation losses.The translator hopes this report can serve as useful tips for others.