| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-10页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第10-14页 |
| ·Rationale of the study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Statement of problems | 第11-12页 |
| ·Purpose of the study | 第12页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第12页 |
| ·Organization of the paper | 第12-14页 |
| CHAPTER TWO VAGUENESS AND LEGISLATIVE LANGUAGE | 第14-27页 |
| ·Legislative language | 第14-18页 |
| ·Correlation between language and law | 第14-16页 |
| ·Legislative language | 第16-17页 |
| ·Features of legislative language | 第17-18页 |
| ·Vagueness and theories of vagueness | 第18-21页 |
| ·Distinction between vagueness and fuzziness | 第18-19页 |
| ·A biref introduction to vagueness | 第19-20页 |
| ·Influence of theoires of vagueness | 第20-21页 |
| ·Vagueness in legislative language | 第21-27页 |
| ·Vagueness in legislative language | 第22-24页 |
| ·Classification of vagueness in legislative language | 第24-27页 |
| CHAPTER THREE MANIFESTATIONS AND REASONS OF LEXICAL VAGUENESS IN THE CHINESE LEGISLATIVE LANGUAGE | 第27-37页 |
| ·Manifestations of lexical vagueness in the Chinese legislative language | 第27-32页 |
| ·Nominal vagueness | 第27-28页 |
| ·Numeral and quantiifer vagueness | 第28-29页 |
| ·Adjectival and adverbial vagueness | 第29-30页 |
| ·Pronominal and auxiliary vagueness | 第30-31页 |
| ·Prepositional vagueness | 第31-32页 |
| ·Reasons of lexical vagueness in the Chinese legislative language | 第32-37页 |
| ·The Intirnsic features of legislative language | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Requirements of legislative principles | 第34-35页 |
| ·The lawmakers' restirction of cognition | 第35-37页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR TRANSLATION OF LEXICAL VAGUENESS IN THECHINESE LEGISLATIVE LANGUAGE | 第37-46页 |
| ·General translation principles of legal language | 第37-40页 |
| ·Preciseness | 第38-39页 |
| ·Formalness | 第39页 |
| ·Consistency | 第39-40页 |
| ·Conciseness | 第40页 |
| ·Translation strategies of vagueness in the Chinese legislative language | 第40-46页 |
| ·Vagueness to vagueness | 第41-43页 |
| ·Preciseness to vagueness | 第43-44页 |
| ·Flexible translation strategies | 第44-46页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第46-48页 |
| References | 第48-49页 |
