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The Ways of Translation for English for Science and Technology Abstract: English for Science and Technology has been paid a lot of attention for the development of international academic communication. Learning ways of translation for English for Science and Technology EST is very necessary. English for Science and Technology mainly includes the following text: report of EST, dissertation of EST, report and plan of experimentation of EST, and so on. EST looks similar as other English types thats consisted with phonetics, glossary and grammar, but larger and formal the EST is used in scientifically and technological field, its characteristics show more and more, and it has been a independent stylistics, so all of these are building the base for EST as a subject. This article will focus on the way of translation for English for Science and Technology. In the article, first, the standards of translation for EST are talked, beside the basic standards faithfulness and expression, a new standard is introduced, that is concision; then, the language of translation for EST is discussed, such as nominalization, passive sentence, The use of basic type, and so on; the third part mainly aims at the ways of how to translation. Key words: English for science and technology; translation; method; faithfulness; expression; concision Content 1 Introduction 2 The Standards and Knowledge for Translation of EST 2.1 Requires for translator 2.1.1 Good command of English 2.1.2 Good command of Chinese 2.1.3familiary with the knowledge of EST 2.1.4Translation skills and theories 2.1.5 Highly-developed sense of responsibility 2.2 The standards of translation for EST 2.2.1 Faithfulness 2.2.2 Smoothness 2.2.3 Concision 3. the features of EST 3.1 grammatical features of EST 3.1.1More use of long and complicated sentences 3.1.2general use of nominalization 3.1.3extensive use of the passive voice 3.1.4 more non-finite verbs 3.2 lexical features of EST 3.2.1 specific use of highly –technical wo