This essay aims to analyze my translation of ForensicChemistryHandbook which is a scientific book published in 2012. I am commissioned to translate the book by China Maritime Police Academy, a university in Ningbo. Th...This essay aims to analyze my translation of ForensicChemistryHandbook which is a scientific book published in 2012. I am commissioned to translate the book by China Maritime Police Academy, a university in Ningbo. The translated version will be used as a textbook for university, thus the potential readers will be students in this university. As to features of the textbook, it belongs to informative text, which can be characterized as conciseness, correctness and objectiveness. Guided by typical functional translationtheoriessuchasHanJ.Vermeer'sskoposruleandPeterNewmark'stexttypology,thiscommentarywilldealwithhowI use collaborative strategy and simplification to translate the book to ensure the quality and efficiency, especially when encountering technicaltermsandcomplicatedsentences.FourexamplesareshowninthefollowingpapertoillustratehowItranslatethebook.展开更多
文摘This essay aims to analyze my translation of ForensicChemistryHandbook which is a scientific book published in 2012. I am commissioned to translate the book by China Maritime Police Academy, a university in Ningbo. The translated version will be used as a textbook for university, thus the potential readers will be students in this university. As to features of the textbook, it belongs to informative text, which can be characterized as conciseness, correctness and objectiveness. Guided by typical functional translationtheoriessuchasHanJ.Vermeer'sskoposruleandPeterNewmark'stexttypology,thiscommentarywilldealwithhowI use collaborative strategy and simplification to translate the book to ensure the quality and efficiency, especially when encountering technicaltermsandcomplicatedsentences.FourexamplesareshowninthefollowingpapertoillustratehowItranslatethebook.
