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Chinese Translation of International Trade Terms—A Corpus Based Study
TIAN Fang-yao
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2021.09.010
Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Being widely used in global trade, the translation of international trade terms is necessary. Major procedures in this article are as following: (1) collecting 750 international trade terms and their Chinese translations from dictionaries, journals and official websites related to international trade terms; (2) using Tmxmall to align the international trade terms and their Chinese translation to build a parallel corpus; (3) selecting 120 out of the 750 international trade terms through random sampling; (4) classifying the international trade terms into four types through POS-tagging in CLAWS5; (5) basing on the functional equivalence and summarizing the main translation methods of international trade terms. The result shows literal translation, free translation and combination of literal and free translation employed in the Chinese translation of international trade terms.
international trade terms, Chinese translation, functional equivalence, corpus-based study
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, September 2021, Vol. 11, No. 9, 690-695
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