On the Cultural Translation of Tourist Tests:From the Perspective of Functionalist Thoery

In the process of translation,to convey cultural information effectively is the main problem that the translators have to solve.According to Newmark, tourist tests are the one which mainly aims to have the vocative function and focus on readers.In its translation,the most important is to convey the information. In respect to the C-E translation of tourist tests,the author makes a detailed analysis of the application of the functionalist translation theory to the translation of tourist texts.This paper holds that the translator should stand in the shoes of the TL reader,convey the maximum core information of the original text and select translating strategy in accordance with the expected skopos of the translated version.The author suggests three translation methods-amplification,omission, adaptation should be adopted to achieve the purpose of translation of tourist materials.