摘 要

       在全球塑料污染日益严重的情况下，塑料垃圾数量快速增加，侵占城市、乡村和海洋，形成“塑料大陆”，这不仅破坏自然环境，还威胁生态平衡和人类健康，因此提升环保意识变得极为重要。而该论文集的翻译，对推动塑料污染治理研究及策略制定具有重要意义。

       本文主要基于卡塔琳娜·莱斯文本类型理论，对学术著作 Plastic Legacies: Pollution, Persistence, and Politics 节选内容开展英汉翻译实践研究，聚焦信息型文本翻译中术语准确性、句法流畅性及篇章逻辑性三大核心问题。本报告以学术文本为对象，结合莱斯理论对信息型文本的信息准确性、流畅性及可读性原则，提出分层翻译策略：词法层面通过直译加注法处理专业术语与文化负载词，兼顾准确性与可读性；句法层面采用拆分重组、被动转主动等策略，化解英汉结构差异，提升译文的跨文化适应性；篇章层面通过互文指涉显化、代词还原及批判语气强化，重现源文本审美效果，传达等效文本意图。实践结果表明，莱斯理论对学术文本翻译的适配性体现在：1）术语标准化策略确保知识传播精准度；2）句法调整策略优化跨语言逻辑衔接；3）修辞转化策略平衡信息传递与学术话语风格。在文本类型理论指导下，本次翻译实践为译者处理同类文本提供了实践参考和理论启示。

关键词：文本类型理论；信息型文本；英汉翻译

ABSTRACT

With the increasingly severe global plastic pollution, plastic waste quantities are rapidly growing, encroaching on cities, villages, and oceans to form a “plastic continent”. This not only damages the natural environment but also threatens ecological balance and human health. Therefore, enhancing environmental awareness has become extremely urgent. Translating this paper collection is of great significance for advancing research on plastic pollution governance and formulating strategies.

This report, mainly based on Katharina Reiss’s text typology theory, conducts a practical translation study of excerpts from the academic work Plastic Legacies: Pollution, Persistence, and Politics, focusing on three core issues in the translation of informational texts: the accuracy of terminology, syntactic fluency, and the logical coherence of the text. The research, centered on academic texts, applies Reiss’s principles on the accuracy, fluency, and readability of informational texts, and proposes a layered translation strategy. At the lexical level, a combination of literal translation and annotation is used to handle technical terms and culturally loaded words, balancing accuracy with readability. At the syntactic level, strategies such as sentence splitting, restructuring, and converting passive to active voice are employed to address structural differences between English and Chinese, enhancing the cross-cultural adaptability of the translation. At the textual level, strategies like intertextual reference clarification, pronoun restoration, and the enhancement of critical tone are applied to recreate the aesthetic effect of the source text and convey the intended meaning of the target text.

The report finds that Reiss’s theory is highly adaptable to the translation of academic texts in the following ways: 1) A standardized terminology strategy ensures the precision of knowledge dissemination; 2) Syntactic adjustments optimize the logical coherence across languages; 3) Rhetorical transformation strategies balance the conveyance of information with the academic discourse style. Under the guidance of text typology theory, this translation practice offers practical guidance and theoretical insights for translators dealing with similar text types.

Keywords: Text Typology Theory; Informational Texts; English-Chinese Translation

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