A Report On The Translation Of Climate Future:Averting And Adapting To Climate Change(Chapter 5)

This source text is selected from Robert S Pindyck’s Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change,the fifth chapter —Climate Policy and Climate Change: What Can We Expect? The selected text belongs to an informative text,simple,concise,but profound.It discusses what has affected climate change from the economic perspective,analyzes the possibility of keeping the global mean temperature increasing within 2℃,and puts forward some solutions to climate change.It will provide some insights for scholars,policymakers,journalists,or the public who have a good understanding of the severity of climate change and are over-optimistic about the global mean temperature increase.The translator tries to translate the text into Chinese under the guidance of Skopos Theory as an insight into translation methods for information texts.The difficulties in translation mainly lie in vocabulary and syntax.Difficulties at the lexical level mainly include economic terminologies;difficulties at the syntactic level consist of part of speech preference between languages and compound sentences.This text,which can be classified as a science book,is to popularize the public factors contributing to climate change and some measures that can be taken.Therefore,according to the Skopos rule,the translator adopts the method of pronoun conversion to ensure the objectivity of the text and enhance the persuasion;the translator uses annotation to supplement economic information to get more readers without economic background to understand the text;the translator applies sentence restructuring and amplification to deal with compound sentences,catering to target readers’ reading habit.By employing those methods,target readers can better understand climate change.