The Translation of Sports English From the Perspective of Functionalism

Sports English contains professional, abundant vocabulary and rich culture, so special principles must be followed in translation. How to convey the information of source language by using proper translation strategies is what translators must face under sports context Functionalism provides a new perspective for sports English translation as it breaks through a traditional and single perspective, promotes researchers to transfer from caring about the equality of two languages to translation process and translators themselves, and it possesses precise scientificity and strong operability. Based on the characteristics of sports English, some translation strategies have been concluded, such as set collocation, compound sentences, inversion and amplification. Meanwhile, such suggestions have been given about sports English translation.