Translation Strategies

Translation Strategies

Of English Business Contract

英语三班

1112013005

杨娇娇

摘要

在国际经济贸易活动中，商务合 同是一种重要的法律文件依据

,

商贸英语已成为必不

,

它也是英文经济贸易合同的 基点。越来越多的英语和法律的爱好者也

希望能尽快熟悉合同英语，从而准确理解，翻译 、制作英语合同。这种需求随着中国加入

WTO

（世界贸易组织 ）而剧增，用英语解决商务合同问题的愿望也会随之越来越迫切。国

际商务合同的种类繁 多，

涉及面广，

内容复杂。这类合同都是涉外交易性质，需要英 汉两种

版本，因此大多需要翻译。商务合同有其自身的特点，即条理性、规范性和专业性 。商务合

同对翻译的质量提出很高的要求，

也增加了其难度。< /p>

本文用大量的例句，

对商务合同英语的

准 确性、

严谨性、

规范性及翻译技巧与内容的完善还有翻译中常见 错误、

成因及其对策等作

了全面分析和论述，并分析其翻译方面 所应注意的问题。

Abstract

Business contract is on important legal document during the International trade

which makes business English as an essential language tool to the English economic

trade. More and more people, who like English and law, hope to know about English

business contact in order to accurately understand, translate and make theses contracts.

International business contact has the features of varied categories, vast coverage, and

complex content which special translation skills to translate. In this term paper, it will

discuss

and

illustrate

the

translation

skills

and

principles

as

well

as

the

common

mistakes and its reasons based on the features of contract. It will also give solutions to

the problems that come into contract translation.

1. Introduction

With

the

constant

deep

development

of

the

policy

of

Market

Economy

and

the

Reform and Open policy to the outside world of our country, the market competitive

system

of

China

has

made

a

further

progress.

The

business

trade

with

the

foreign

country has become so much frequent that we have got more and more opportunity to

cooperate

with

the

foreign

company

with

the

widen

of

the

scale

of

the

enterprises

concerning foreign affairs. So, it has become an imperative part to draft, negotiate and

sign

a

contract.

In

this

paper,

brief

analysis

will

be

given

to

several

aspects

on

translation skills and strategies of the English business contract.

2. Translation Strategies of English Contract

A best translation strategy means that how can make a word or a sentence read

like

the

native

language

both

in

its

style

and

meaning.

Literal

translation,

free

translation,

domesticating

translation

and

foreignzing

translation

are

translation

strategies. In this part, brief introduction will be given to the application of translation

methods in English contract translation. What is more, more attention will be given to

basic translation methods in the translation of English business contract.

2.1 Principles of English Business Contract Translation

Along

with

different

principles

put

forward

by

different

scholars,

translators

usually

hold

the

view

that

the

principles

proposed

by

Professor

Liu

Fagong

in

his

Exploring

into

the

Principles

of

Chinese-English

Business

English

Contract.

Professor Liu puts forward the view that the major principles of business translation

should be “faithfulness

and

exactness”.

2.1.1 Faithfulness

“Faithfulness”

means

that

the

information

must

be

equivalent

with

the

information

in

source

language,

Information

transmitting

is

the

core

of

business

contract, and the information should be equivalent. For example:

(14)

A

partial

average

loss

under

3%of

the

insured

amount

will

not

be

recoverable but one amounting to or exceeding 3% will be paid. (Translation:

单独平

均损失低于所保金额的< /p>

3%

时，不赔偿，达到或超过

3%

时则赔偿。

)