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On the Translation of Contract Introduction A contract obligation is a legally binding agreement that is an agreement imposing rights on the parties of contracts, like statutes, which will be enforced by the courts. The attention to details may be due to a number of causes, including the standardization of routine transactions, the frequent involvement of lawyers in all stages of exceptional transactions, the desire to avoid uncertainty when the law of more than one state may be involved. Business communications across the borders are substantially increasing which stimulates the demand of contract translation as a certain result. Translation of contracts has thus drawn the interests of translators and scholars. To develop translation competence, contract translators need instruction in translation theory as well as practice. The thesis cites the theoretical aspects of translation principles. Like general translation criteria, the criteria for contract translation may be regarded as a criteria in action if it helps translators become responsible decision-makers in terms of Faithfulness, Expressiveness and Elegance or“信、达、雅”in Chinese. Chapter Two of this thesis addresses the lexical features of contract translation, which is to fulfill the main task by means of the analysis of words. Chapter three makes analysis on the syntactic characters of contract translation. Then Chapter four puts forward the options as strategies for the translation of contracts. Chapter 1 Criteria for the Translation of Contracts Criterion is the yardstick to assess a translated text. In China, Yan Fu first proposed three criteria for translation: faithfulness , smoothness and elegance. In 1930s, the debate between Lu Xun and Liang Shiqiu about faithfulness and smoothness accelerated the standardization of translation criteria. Fu Lei called for spiritual similarity instead of formal similarity. Mr Qian Zhongshu brought forth the highest criterion of perfection or transformation of souls.