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1、【标题】法律英语的特征及其翻译【作者】张群【关键词】【指导老师】廖东红蒋朝霞【专业】英语【正文】I•IntroductionLegalEnglishisthestyleofEnglishusedby1awyersandotherlegalprofessionalsinthecourseoftheirwork.Tthasparticularreleva.neewhenappliedtothedraftingofwrittenmaterials,including:contracts,constitution,statute,decree
2、,ordinanee,treaty,publicorder,regulation,agreement,certificate,etc・"LegalEnglishhasitsownterminologyandischaracterizedbyaccuracyandpreciseness・SuchastyleofLegalEnglishissometimesknownasafrozenstyle”1.Legal1anguageischaracteristicinlexical,syntactical,andtextualstructure
3、s.LegalEnglishisstandardandconsistentinterms,appropriateinstyle,formulaicinexpression,specialinsentencestructure,etc・Chin且hadrankedtheforthgreatesteconomicobjectandundersuchcircumstances,China,indeed,needstopromotebetterinternationalcommunicationswithinthefieldoflegalla
4、nguagetranslation.Mostimpressively,thetiesbetweenChinaandothercountriesturntobeincreasinglyclose.However,thepresentsituationofLegalEnglishtranslationinChinaisnotsopreferable,notmatureenough.LegalEnglishtranslationinChinaatpresentisabrand-newsubjectwithfewmasterpiecesand
5、remarkableresearchingfruits.AftertheReformernclOpen-uppolicybeingputintopractice,moreandmoreChineselawsandregulationsweretranslatedintoEnglishinordertoattractmoreforeigninvestors,businessmenand1egalresearchers.VarioustypesoflawsweretranslatedintoChinesetofacetheneedsoft
6、heself-developmentofChinaaswell.Nevertheless,thesetranslationsachievedgreatlybutsomeofthemwerepoorlytranslatodandmanyofthemwereweakinexpression,accordingtoChenZhongcheng,afamoustranslatorinChina・Legallanguageischaracterizedlexicallyandsyntactically,thereforeagoodtransla
7、tionshouldbealternativeinchoosingtranslationskillsandobeyseveralbasictranslationprinciples.II.CharacteristicsofLegalEnglishLegalEnglish,asbeingillustratedinintroduction,hasitsownterminologyandischaracterizedbyaccuracyandpreciseness.LegalEnglishhasitsownfeaturesoflexical
8、andsyntactical.Therefore,thelanguageoflegaldocumentsshouldmeetstrictrequirementsinlexicalandsyntactica1・Legall