An E-C Translation Report On Textile Design:Products And Processes(Chapter 2)

Textile Design: Products and Processes(English)is written by Michael Andrew Hann,which focuses on the processing of fibers to finished fabrics,and emphasizes the basic knowledge of textile processing technology.This translation practice takes the second chapter of the book as the translation object,analyzes the text features of the source text,describes the key difficulties in the translation process,and proposes corresponding solutions through case analysis.The source text is a typical scientific and technical text related to textile with the features of strong logic,objectivity,and accuracy.The article contains a large number of professional terms and complex sentences,which pose a challenge for translator.Therefore,this report,guided by the functional equivalence theory proposed by Nida,combined the translation principles of scientific and technical text to illustrate those translation problems the translator encountered from three aspects: lexical equivalence,syntactic equivalence,and discourse equivalence.At the lexical level,the translator used translation strategies such as omission and conversion of speech.At the syntactic level,strategies such as simplification,from hypotaxis to parataxis,free translation,and reorganization were employed.At the discourse level,logical connections and coherence translation strategies were used to achieve maximum functional equivalence and ultimately the goal of language conversion.Through this translation practice,the translator has gained a deeper insight into scientific& technical text and translation strategies.It is hoped that this report can provide a reference for professionals in related fields and textile industry enthusiasts,and bring some clues to translators closing to this field.