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Comparison with Trados and Déjà Vu 　　Abstrat:The biggest difference between Star and Trados and DéjàVu is that Star has no translation memory. When working with Trados or DéjàVu,the user will always build up the translation memory. During the translation,user can click“Set/Close Next Open/Get”in Trados translation workbench or“Add Pair to Translation Memory”in DéjàVu to send the translated sentence pair to the translation memory.In that case,translation memory is like a big storage,the more translation work the user does,the more translation units the memory has and large memory usually requires large storage space.However,Star develops a distinct function of alignment. With alignment,users can match source text and its corresponding target text as reference language pairs.This is a flexible solution of translation assistance,but it may not be as systematic as translation memory is. 中国论文网 /9/viewhtm　　Key words:Star Transit XV and Termstar;Trados;DéjàVu;translation memory; alignment editing enviroment;pre-translation improvement 　　 　　Compared with Déjà Vu,Trados and Star have more pleasant editing environment. Both Trados and Star enable users to work under their familiar environment-namely Microsoft Word. However,Déjà Vu will convert the text into its working form and divide the text into small segments,which may destroy the consistency of each sentence. In addition, Star provides users with five review features for text editing,which are “Default”, “Translation”,“Alignment”,“No WYSLWYG” and “As 2.7”.By clicking the numbers from one to five in the toolbar,users can choose their favourite edit interface. Once all the preparations are done,the next step will be pre-translating.Déjà Vu,Trados and Star all have pre-translate function. After pre-translation,Déjà Vu will comment on the accuracy of its translation by displaying colours standing for assembled,exact match,fuzzy match and so on. Although Star does not show comment after pre-translation,its pre-tran