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A Few Thoughts of Interpretation 外国语学院 英语0704 杨育 Abstract: Interpretation plays a very important role in interlingual and intercultural communications. However, the study of interpretation has long been ignored. This paper introduces main interpretation research centers and their publications, provides some coping tactics of interpreting, and gives some suggestions on how to become a competent interpreter, so as to enhance the role of interpretation as the bridge between different languages and cultures. Key words: interpretation study； interpretation research centers； coping tactics intercultural communication, and interpretation serves as an effective role to bridge the language and cultural gap. As a phenomenon or an activity, interpretation has a long history, dating back to the early period of human society, but researches on it have long been ignored. This paper consists of five parts, including the introduction and the conclusion. The first part serves as the introduction, which gives an overall view of this paper. The second part presents a literature review of interpretation studies by introducing main interpretation research centers and their publications. The third part is a tentative study of coping tactics for interpreters. The fourth part provides some suggestions on how to be a competent interpreter. The last part serves as the conclusion. Main interpretation research centers and their publications Over the last few decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of publications on interpretation. A few centers which have a great influence in the contemporary history of interpreting research have been formed. Their present activity is particularly noteworthy. This section introduces the main research centers in which interpreting literature is published. 2.1 Europe Historically, Europe was the first and understandably the largest center of interpreting activity. Its interpreting schools are the oldest, most numerous, and