翻译硕士毕业翻译实践报告开题报告

1、*学院网站英译的实践报告A Report on the C-E Translation of the Website of College ofCONTENTS1. IntroductionWith the increased internatinal academic exchange and reseach communication between universities home and broad, it is indispcnsible for universities to be equipped with English websites, publicity albums

2、and video clips. English website, with its diversification of forms, massive amounts of information and easy accsess, plays an important role in intenational exchange and communication. This report is based on the project of website translation for*The author of this report was fortunate to particip

3、ate in the translation project as a translator. Through a detailed anaysis of the project procedure and cases studies of the translation, the report will focus on the two aspects of issues. Firstly, how to get an accurate and appropriate translation by adopting Skopostheorie as the tanslation theory

4、; Secondly, how to use parallel texts to solve the problems relate to terminology, language style, figure of speech and cultural factors 2. Project DescriptionThis project of translation was authorized by College of Technology and Engineering, and undertaken by the faculty of English as a teaching p

5、rogram. The author of this report, together with other three team members accepted the project in September, 2014 The college supplied the manuscripts of the Chinese website and appointed a teacher in the Publicity Department for consulting in case of meeting problems relate to Chinese version durin

6、g the process of translation. After a discussion in-depth with the Publicity Department, the team got a clear and definite orientation on what and what will not be translated. The task would be composed of 2 phases. The first phase includes five main parts- About the College, Faculties, Departments

7、and Majors, International Exchange and Latest News (news from January to August, 2014). The second phase mainly includes the update of the information and news items So far, the first phase of the project has been carrying out and will be completed by November, 2014. The author of this paper is in c

8、harge of translating "About the College, Faculties, Depaitn©irs and Majors, I/iteniational Exchange n as her assigned task .which covers about 11,330 Chinese words 3. Literary Features AnalysisA good knowledge of literaryr features of college website plays a dominant role in achieving the

9、goal of getting a good translation. According to the analysis of the texts functions, language style.3.1 Text Functions"Text functions are defined as effects given by the text in specific cominunicativ已 context' (Fan Yong). The first and most important obvious function of college English We

10、bsite is to provide the readers necessary information, such as the history; the staff and faculties, the disciplines and majors. college facilities and international cooperation and exchange. Besides the English Website also has the functions of appealing and aspiring more students to enroll by publ

11、icity and promoting its own image To conclude. the English website is built to provide necessary information for the target readers. the source texts should be translated and edited to mainly fulfill the informative function.3.2 Language StyleLexically, the source text is very Concise and rich in in

12、formation with a lot of highly condensed, peculiar vocabulary、such as "多学科、教学型、使用性、有特色” ,and many terminologies relate to disciplines, organizations Syntactically, scattered short sentences, parallelism sentences and non subject sentences are common and typical sentence pattern and unique langu

13、age phenomenon in the source texts. Undoubtedly, these features of the source texts make it more difficult to get an accurate translation4. Translation PreparationSince both the college and the translation team attached great importance to the program, the Program Proposal made clear the responsibil

14、ities and duties of both parties, which include the job requirements, expectations to the project team and the continuing supporting from the college. Similar to any translation project, the translating of website also contains three main partsPre-translating, While-translating and Post-translating

15、In order to have a smooth procedure, it is indispensable for the team to do plenty of preparations in Pre-translation part. The preparations mainly focus on making a plan about the whole project, which includes the staffing, the translation procedure as well as analysis of the website manuscripts an

16、d the strategies applied in this project.4JTransIation PlanningA general plan of the project staffing, procedure will be made in this part. As illustrated in Figure 1, the project team was composed of four members. The author works as translator and takes the whole charge of the project. The consult

17、ant is responsible for any problem relates to the Chinese manuscript. Any deletion or addition to the English translation should be fully discussed with and permitted by the consultant. The Proofreader is a professional translator who is responsible for proofreading of the drafts and supervision of

18、the whole project.Figure 1 StaffingPeriodTimeStaffWorking ContentslslSep 15 to Sep 17Whole teamTeam conferencePeriodSep 18 to Otc 15Translators andFirst draft of their assigned tasksTranslatorNo. 1(The author)Project management. Pre-translating analysis, tanslating the assisgned parts. Compleletion

19、ReportTranslatorNo. 2Pre-translating analysis, tanslating the assisgned partsConsultantConsulting, Typesetting and uploading the final draftProofreaderProofreading and SupervisionStaffTasks and ResponsibilitiesStaffTasks and ResponsibilitiesAs illustrated in Figure 2, the project will last for 2 mon

20、ths. During the process, the whole team will hold formal team meeting at least twice,onc before the project for discussing, one after for conclusion. The allocation of tasks, responsibilties and the strategies apllied to the translation would also be fully discussed during the meeting. After the mee

21、ting, the tanslators will begin their work with fully comprehension of the source texts, searching for the relative parallel texts, making Glossaries, and then the first daft, second draft and final draft The Consultant would be in his position for any consultation at the same time. The profreader w

22、ill work diligently to profread the drafts at least twiceFigure 2 Time PlanningConsultantOtc 15 to Otc 25ProofreaderProofreading of the first drafts2ndOtc 26 to Otc 31TranslatorsSecond draft of their assigned tasksPeriodNov 1 to Nov 5ProofreaderProofreading of the second drafts3rdNov 6 to Nov 10Tran

23、slatorsFinal draftsPeriodNov 12Whole teamTeam conference4.2 Translating Strategies AdoptedThe German linguist and translation scholar Katharina Reiss reasrched the features and relative translating strategies of different type of texts in the "Functional Characteristic of text types and links t

24、o translation methods (adapted from Reiss 1971)： She divided texts in to three types: mformation text", "expressive text" and "operative text". And Reiss pointed out that although there may be different functions of each text, but the determining factor for a translation is

25、"whether the translation transmits the meanmg of the source texts： Infoniiation text ' refers to "those texts focusing on its content and with a main fiinction of exchanguig information、knowledge and opinions". According to those theories on translation, we can find the source tex

26、ts of this project, has the features of "information text二 and "operatrve text： So Scopes Theory and Text Typology will be adopted in this project to guide the whole process of translation.4.3 Contingency PlanBefore starting translation, the College of Technology and Engineering assumed th

27、e whole team members are qualified and able to complete the project under the timetable Given any emergency would happen during the process, such as health conditions, change of workload or unexpected situations of the team members may influence the planned procedures Thus, the project team made a c

28、ontingency plan to make sure the project will be accomplished punctually. The plan mainly contains two aspects. Firstly, each team member should try his or her best to fulfill his or her duty, but in the event of any emergency, some spare time is needed to be reserved. Secondly, once any member of t

29、he team could not continue the work, she or he should try to make a notice in advance The work he or she left would be given to the other backup teachers in the Faculty of English Any disputes caused by emergencies should be solved and remedied under the permission of the college5. Translating Proce

30、ssThe project team established a specific translation process after discussion, which includes task assignment, translation, proofreading, editing delivery and backup. During translation, the team used personal computers, online dictionaries, search engine and other tools to help making glossaries a

31、nd parallel texts5.1 The GlossaryAs the project is translation of the college website, it has a lot of vocabularies relating to majors, faculties, disciplines The project team made full use of Internet resources, dictionaries and parallel texts to get authoritative and convincing Glossaries5.2 The I

32、mplementation of the TranslationAccording to the project proposal, the whole translation project will last for 3 months. Because the author will compose her report on the basis of the translation. the task of the author would be completed in advance So far. the author has finished the analysis of th

33、e text feature of the source texts, adopted proper translating theory as guidance, the first part of the Glossary and almost half of the translation. The rest part of translation will be completed ahead of time6. Quality ControlSimilar to other translation project, effective quality control system p

34、lays a dominant role in acquiring a sound translation The quality control system of this project is composed of two parts. Firstly, group discussion and parallel texts assured a convincing glossary; which is the most basic part of the translation. Before we translate the assigned part, we put all th

35、e uncertain terms and expressions together and began to look up them in dictionaries and search engines respectively. Then we share and discuss them until get a satisfied one. Secondly, proofreading and editing is another important part The translators were required to proofread their own translatio

36、n first to avoid misspelling and obvious incorrectness. Then the professional proofreader would read through the translation at least twice to do further proofreading and editing7. Case Study7.1 Deletion and Simplification of the Unnecessary Inforniation7.2 Combination the Scattered, Short Sentences

37、7.3 Splitting the Long and Complicated Sentences7.4 Utilization of the Parallel Texts8. Reflections and ConclusionTaking the Chinese to English translation of the website of College of Technology and Engineering, the author of this report begins with an analysis on the features of source texts. Since the source texts have obvious features of informative texts, the author adopted Scopes Theory and Text Typology