内容简介

《公共演讲,寻找你的声音》由Kathleen J. Turner, Michael Osborn, Randall Osborn和 Suzanne Osborn共同编著，以教学类文本为基础，旨在帮助学生获得演讲技巧和信心从而更好地完成公共演讲。本书由公共演讲的基础、准备、技巧和类型这四大部分构成，并以16个章节进行具体论述。本次翻译实践选自第7章《构建可靠的知识》。

《构建可靠的知识》主要是针对演讲中所涉及的可靠信息的获取，公共演讲内容需要严谨准确，并具有一定权威性的信息来支撑才能使听众信服。本章中作者将整个研究可靠知识的过程分为四个步骤：研究准备、常规知识探寻、深层知识探寻和研究成果评估。针对每一部分，作者都进行了深入分析并提出相关建议。对于核心内容：探寻深层知识，作者更是不吝笔墨，从互联网、图书馆到个人访谈事无巨细地进行详尽描述，让读者能够更为容易且多方位地获得所需信息已达到此章的写作目的。

此次翻译实践的小论文包含四部分内容。概述翻译的主要内容，描述整个翻译过程中想法的转变、思维的转换和策略的改变，整理归类翻译中所遇到的困难并针对各类难题提出相应的解决方案，最后是对此次翻译实践进行总结。

翻译实践原文

As a student, Marisol lived on a tight budget. In choosing her groceries though, she had always felt that it was best to buy “green” products whenever she could afford it, even if it cost a bit more. She believed these products came from companies that respected the earth as much as she did. Marisol especially thought it was important to buy “sustainably harvested” fish because she loved the ocean and wanted to do all she could to protect marine ecosystems.

Marisol felt that this would make a good topic for her persuasive speech. She could educate her classmates on the virtues of spending the extra money for sustainably harvested fish and raise awareness among her peers about vital marine ecology issues. She was excited about her topic and ready to begin her research.

Marisol began her research by checking to see what was available in the seafood department at Whole Foods and making note of the price differences between regular and “sustainably caught” fish. Her next step was to search the Internet. The amount of information she found was over-whelming and sometimes contradictory. Some sites even suggested that these “sustainably caught” claims were no more than a marketing ploy. Consumers, they said, were being “greenwashed,” duped into paying more for products by labeling them as “sustainable.” Actually, they contended, the populations from which these fish were harvested could not possibly survive in the long term with the pressures that commercial fishing was imposing on them.

Which sources were telling the truth? Was Marisol herself a victim of “green-washing”? How could she ensure that she had the most accurate and unbiased information possible? Marisol realized that it would take careful research and critical thinking skills to develop an ethical and unbiased speech on this topic and that she might even have to change her own point of view.