1、The author of this report was fortunate to participate 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
2、 by adopting Skopostheorie as the tanslation theory. 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
3、 undertaken by the faculty of English as a teaching program. 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 ca
4、se of meeting problems relate to Chinese version during 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
5、main parts- About the College, Faculties, Departments 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 comple
6、ted by November, 2014. The author of this paper is in charge of translating “About the College, Faculties, Departments and Majors, International Exchange” as her assigned task, which covers about 11,330 Chinese words.3. Literary Features AnalysisA good knowledge of literary features of college websi
7、te plays a dominant role in achieving the 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 communicative context” （Fan Yong）. The first and most important obvio
8、us function of college English Website 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 aspiri
9、ng more students to enroll by publicity 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
10、 text is very Concise and rich in information with a lot of highly condensed, peculiar vocabulary, such as “多学科、教学型、应用性、有特色” , ,and many terminologies relate to disciplines, organizations. Syntactically, scattered short sentences, parallelism sentences and non subject sentences are common and typica
11、l sentence pattern and unique language phenomenon in the source texts. Undoubtedly, these features of the source texts make it more difficult to get an accurate translation.4. Translation Preparation Since both the college and the translation team attached great importance to the program, the Progra
12、m Proposal made clear the responsibilities 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, Wh
13、ile-translating and Post-translating. 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
14、analysis of the website manuscripts and the strategies applied in this project. 4.1Translation 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
15、whole charge of the project. The consultant 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 proofr
16、eading of the drafts and supervision of the whole project.Figure 1 Staffing StaffTasks and Responsibilities Translator No. 1（The author）Project management, Pre-translating analysis, tanslating the assisgned parts, Compleletion ReportTranslator No. 2Pre-translating analysis, tanslating the assisgned
17、partsConsultantConsulting, Typesetting and uploading the final draftProofreaderProofreading and SupervisionAs illustrated in Figure 2, the project will last for 2 months. During the process, the whole team will hold formal team meeting at least twice,one before the project for discussing, one after
18、for conclusion. The allocation of tasks, responsibilties and the strategies apllied to the translation would also be fully discussed during the meeting. After the meeting, the tanslators will begin their work with fully comprehension of the source texts, searching for the relative parallel texts, ma
19、king 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 will work diligently to profread the drafts at least twice.Figure 2 Time PlanningPeriodTimeStaffWorking Contents1st Period Sep 15 to S
20、ep 17Whole teamTeam conference Sep 18 to Otc 15Translators and ConsultantFirst draft of their assigned tasksOtc 15 to Otc 25Proofreading of the first drafts2nd PeriodOtc 26 to Otc 31TranslatorsSecond draft of their assigned tasksNov 1 to Nov 5Proofreading of the second drafts3rd PeriodNov 6 to Nov 1
21、0Final draftsNov 12Team conference4.2 Translating Strategies Adopted The 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 to translation methods （adap
22、ted from Reiss 1971）”. She divided texts in to three types: “information 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 “whether the translation transmits the meaning of
23、 the source texts”. “Information text” refers to “those texts focusing on its content and with a main function of exchanging information, knowledge and opinions”. According to those theories on translation, we can find the source texts of this project, has the features of “information text”, and “op
24、erative 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 the whole team members are qualified and able to complete the project under
25、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 contingency plan to make sure the project will be accomplished punctually
26、. 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 the team could not continue the work, she or he should try to make a noti
27、ce 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 college. 5. Translating ProcessThe project team established a specific translation process after
28、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 and parallel texts. 5.1 The Glossary As the project is translation o
29、f 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 Glossaries. 5.2 The Implementation of the TranslationAccording to the project prop
30、osal, 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 the 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
