Traducción parcial comentada del inglés al español del artículo de revisión The epidemics of myopia: aetiology and prevention

Abstract

Nowadays, English is used as a lingua franca in the scientific community. Because of the globalisation and the development of technology, which allows the exchange of information worldwide, and due to the preference of countries to use their languages, the scientific translation has become essential. The main difficulties for a translator are to express the same meaning in the target language as in the original text and to ensure accuracy and precision in terminology. Imprecise information may result in serious mistakes caused by misunderstandings. The aim of this academic work is to translate a text from English into Spanish about the prevalence of myopia and its prevention, followed by an analysis where the main formal and terminological difficulties have been discussed, as well as the aspects that a translator must be aware of. So as to solve the problems which appeared during the translation process, many translation references, such as scientific dictionaries, databases and parallel texts have been consulted. All the bibliography and webliography used helped me to choose the most appropriate equivalents in cases where more than one translation was possible, and to express the information as idiomatically as possible. Once I have completed the work, I consider I have achieved my purpose: to analyse my own translation of a specialized text, which helped me to become aware of the relevance of precision in this field. Another important aspect which must be taken into account is that the most direct equivalent may not be the correct translation and everything depends on the context. Even though the main problems were discussed, there is still a lot of research that has to be developed in the future regarding scientific translation.