化石能源作为人类社会发展的主要动力，其劣势和危害也日益凸显，对实现“碳达峰”和“碳中和”目标构成挑战。为了深入了解如何优化能源结构和引导公众改变能源消费行为等方面的知识，译者选择美国哲学家、能源学家Alex Epstein的畅销书FOSSIL FUTURE（简称）为翻译实践底本，以实践中出现的问题为导向，在信息论的指导下选择翻译方法解决问题。译者在提高自身翻译能力的同时，深入了解并分享源文本中关于化石能源重要性及影响的讨论。

本实践报告对翻译的内容、翻译过程和信息论及其在翻译实践中的应用进行介绍。第四章为本次实践报告的重点，译者在翻译中，由于出现了英汉双语之间的语言习惯及表述差异、两国文化背景差异，或是读者对于科学信息掌握不足等问题，在信息论的指导下，分析出是因受众信道容量相对狭窄，容易出现传输负载过大，超出目的语受众信道容量的情况，以及信息在传递过程中还具有离散性，不可避免地会发生损耗和偏移，因此译者以信息冗余和信息离散为问题导向，相应采取了增译、减译、适应性翻译三种策略，使用FOSSIL FUTURE中的部分语句和对应的译句为例，探讨如何让传输负载匹配信道容量。最后译者认识到，本次实践拓宽了译者的翻译材料类别，提高了译者的翻译能力，同时意识到本次实践工具选择不灵活、语言选择不及原作有趣味性等问题，并对本次翻译实践进行总结。

Fossil fuels have long served as the primary driver of human societal development, yet their drawbacks and hazards are increasingly apparent, posing challenges to achieving “carbon peak” and “carbon neutrality” goals. In order to know more about how to optimize energy structure and guide the public in changing energy consumption behaviors, etc., the translator chose the best-selling book FOSSIL FUTURE: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas — Not Less by American philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein as the source text for this translation practice. Oriented by the issues encountered in the practice and guided by the Information Theory, methods were chosen to address these issues. The practice has not only enhanced the translator’s translation skills but also delved into and shared discussions in the source text regarding the importance and impact of fossil fuels.

This practice report will introduce the content, translation process, and the application of the Information Theory in the practice. The fourth chapter is the focal point of this practice report, where, guided by the Information Theory, the translator analyzed the issues arising from differences in language habits and expressions between English and Chinese, differences in cultural backgrounds between the two countries, or readers’ limited grasp of scientific information. It is identified that due to the relatively narrow audience channel capacity, there is a tendency for the transmission load to exceed the target language audience’s channel capacity, and information also exhibits discreteness in the transmission process, inevitably leading to loss and deviation. Therefore, the translator adopted a problem-oriented approach focusing on information redundancy and information discreteness, and correspondingly employed three strategies of amplification, omission, and conversion. Using the selected sentences from FOSSIL FUTURE and their corresponding translations as examples, the report will explore how to align the transmission load with the channel capacity. Finally, the translator recognized that this practice had expanded the exposure to translation material categories, enhanced translation skills, and identified issues such as inflexible tool selection and less engaging language compared to the original work, concluding the translation practice.