Difficulties and peculiarities of translating texts from English into Russian on aviation and environmental topics

Ryabkova G. V., Ovsyannikova M. N.

For an adequate translation of aviation and environmental texts, which are a fusion of two related scientific fields, it is necessary to study their terminological field in depth and in detail. Understanding the specifics of both aviation and environmental areas gives the translator many times more opportunities to study how two seemingly incompatible areas interact with each other. The paper examines the difficulties and peculiarities in the translation of texts on aviation and environmental topics. In addition, various translation techniques are considered, which can most often be seen when translating aviation and environmental terms from English into Russian. Namely, there are such techniques as descriptive translation, calculus, translation using the genitive case, translation using prepositions, inversion, lexical additions, concretization and equivalent substitution. The study material was a textbook on ecology by Michael Begon et al. "Ecology: From Individuals to ecosystems". Also, for illustrative examples, some excerpts from the briefing material "Global aviation and our sustainable future" were used.

Keywords:ecology, EFL, aviation term, environmental term, translation, terminological units.