| The current COVID pandemic has caused quit a lot changes to every aspect of people’s lives.And under this very context,there is also a growing demand for the knowledge and facts about viruses,infectious diseases and epidemics.In addition,basic biological and medical knowledge is necessary for dispelling rumors spreading on the Internet,which has caused some troubles in effectively realizing independent epidemic prevention.Therefore,this project chooses the source text with epidemic content and tries to help readers better comprehend epidemics,COVID viruses and diseases by explaining the knowledge of microbiology and epidemiology.This project is a report on the translation of the first chapter in Part One from the book Epidemics and Pandemics: From Ancient Plagues to Modern-Day Threats.The source text is an informative text with medical and biological content and the project mainly discusses the translation difficulties and methods when dealing with this kind of text under the skopos theory.The translation difficulties are translating generic-medical amphibious words,compound sentences with “and”and complex sentences with “nested” structures.And the solutions include semantic extension,addition,division and inversion. |
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