| This is a translation report,and the source text is extracted from the fifth and sixth chapters of Fragile Power: Why Having Everything Is Never Enough.By reliving his working with certain patients,the author intends to help shake off the social stigma against wives who remain devoted to their errant husbands in chapter five,and reveals the agonies and humiliations that have haunted those with extraordinary physical charm yet are barely known to most of us,in an effort to produce a more comprehensive perspective,a more reasonable attitude on beauty on the readers’ part.The two topics,though probably more or less able to transform our fixed views on the world,are both thought-provoking.Thus,the translator thinks its translation significantly important.As a famous psychological book,it is mainly an informative text.In general,there’s a large presence of complex sentences in the selected texts,which means the translator should have a good understanding of the original text and not be restrained by the sentence structures before birthing a correct,fluent,and idiomatic translation.In addition,plenty of similes and metaphors can be found and their translation is also worthy of attention.Faced with these obstacles,the translator integrates the source text with translation practice under the guidance of Peter Newmark’s semantic and communicative translation theory.Complex sentences and similes and metaphors are the focus of translation case analysis.To be specific,two translation skills,division and inversion,are employed when it comes to the translation of complex sentences;free translation,and literal translation with annotation of similes and metaphors. |
