Business English Contracts Literary Style features and Translation Technique 英语商务合同的文体特征和翻译技巧 (2).docVIP

成人高等学历教育毕 业 论 文 英语商务合同的文体特征和翻译技巧 办学单位： 外 国 语 学 院 班 级： 08级外贸英语（专升本） 学 生： 指导教师： 提交日期： 2010 年 11 月 4 日 Business English Contracts Literary Style features and Translation TechniqueBy Supervisor: Prof. NOV 04, 2010School of Foreign Languages, SCUTAbstractBusiness English Contracts Literary Style features and Translation TechniqueWith the rapid development of international economy and trade，business English contracts have been widely used in international business activities. However, many business economic disputes are caused by the failure in translation of them, so how to translate the business English contract appears more and more significant now. Up to now, lots of translators have been dedicated to studying the translation skills of business English contract, but most of them only place emphasis on the literary level of the contract, but ignore its specialty that business English contract, as a legal document, has strict rules and conventional usages of its own, which is different from the average applied texts. So this paper, based on both the linguistic and legal characteristics of business English contract, analyzes its own language features and translation strategies. Firstly, the paper analyzes its style characteristics on words, sentence and text levels. Then, the paper summarizes the translation strategies of business English contract and gives advice on its translation methods. Through the above research, the paper hopes to improve translators’ capability of comprehension and translation of business English contract.Key Words: business English contract; style feature; translation technique摘要英语商务合同的文体特征和翻译技巧随着中国对外经济贸易的飞速发展，商务英语合同在国际商务活动中使用得越来越广泛。其中不少商务经济纠纷在很大程度上是由于合同翻译失误所引起的，因此，商务英语合同的翻译问题也显得越来越重要。到目前为止，已有许多翻译工作者致力于商务英语合同的翻译技巧研究。然而大部分的研究都强调从文本的文学方面对商务英语合同的翻译进行研究，而忽略了商务英语合同本身作为一种法律文本，有其严格的规则和惯例，有其独特的特点，因而不同于一般的应用文文体翻译。因此，本文从商务英语合同的文体和法律特征两个方面来分析其自身的特点以及其