| 内容提要 | 第1-9页 |
| SYNOPSIS | 第9-13页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第13-16页 |
| CHAPTER 1 HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF LEGAL TRANSLATION | 第16-23页 |
| 1．1 History of Legal Translation | 第16-18页 |
| 1．1．1 Justinian's directive: strict literal translation | 第16页 |
| 1．1．2 The inevitable shift to literal translation | 第16-17页 |
| 1．1．3 Gradual concessions to target language | 第17-18页 |
| 1．2 History of Legal Translation in China | 第18-23页 |
| 1．2．1 Translation and the steps the West took to know China | 第18-19页 |
| 1．2．2 Translation and the dissemination of Western legal culture in China | 第19-23页 |
| CHAPTER 2 THE THEORY AND STRATEGIES OF LEGAL TRANSLATION | 第23-32页 |
| 2．1 General Translation Theory | 第23-25页 |
| 2．2 Legal Translation Theory | 第25-32页 |
| 2．2．1 The status of legal translation | 第26-27页 |
| 2．2．2 Criteria for quality assessment of legal translation | 第27-28页 |
| 2．2．3 An act of communication in the mechanism in law | 第28-32页 |
| 2．2．3．1 Text producers and receivers in legal communication | 第28-29页 |
| 2．2．3．2 Legal hermeneutics | 第29-32页 |
| 2．2．3．2．1 Traditional and contemporary legal hermeneutics | 第29-30页 |
| 2．2．3．2．2 Legal hermeneutics in contemporary China | 第30-32页 |
| CHAPTER 3 THE GOAL OF LEGAL TRANSLATION | 第32-38页 |
| 3．1 Special-purpose Translation | 第32页 |
| 3．2 The Goal of Legal Translation in Different Perspectives | 第32-34页 |
| 3．2．1 Determining the meaning of plurilingual legal texts | 第32-33页 |
| 3．2．2 The unity of the single instrument | 第33-34页 |
| 3．3 The Goal of Legal Translation in China After China's Accession to WTO | 第34-35页 |
| 3．3．1 The situation on legal translation market | 第34-35页 |
| 3．3．2 Requirements on legal translation after the accession | 第35页 |
| 3．4 The goal of legal translation in Hong Kong and Macao | 第35-38页 |
| CHAPTER 4 FEATURES OF LEGAL TEXTS AND THEIR TRANSLATION | 第38-51页 |
| 4．1 Legal texts as a Variety | 第38页 |
| 4．2 The Features of Legal Texts | 第38-51页 |
| 4．2．1 Lexical features | 第38-42页 |
| 4．2．1．1 Preference for formal and big words | 第38-39页 |
| 4．2．1．2 Frequent employment of archaic and loan words and phrase | 第39-41页 |
| 4．2．1．3 Common words with special meaning | 第41-42页 |
| 4．2．2 Semantic atures | 第42-48页 |
| 4．2．2．1 Repetition of words for accuracy | 第42-43页 |
| 4．2．2．2 Frequent use of synonyms and parallel structure | 第43-44页 |
| 4．2．2．3 Preference for nominalization | 第44-45页 |
| 4．2．2．4 Precision of expression | 第45-46页 |
| 4．2．2．5 The illocutionary act | 第46-48页 |
| 4．2．3 Grammatical features | 第48-51页 |
| 4．2．3．1 Frequent employment of long complicated sentences | 第48-49页 |
| 4．2．3．2 Objective composition of declarative sentences | 第49-51页 |
| CHAPTER 5 AMBIGUITY AND SOME ERRORS IN LEGAL TRANSLATION | 第51-58页 |
| 5．1 Ambiguous Expression in Legal Texts | 第51-52页 |
| 5．1．1 To embody the spirit of law in the legislative genre so as to crack down on crime to the maximum limit | 第51-52页 |
| 5．1．2 To reinforce the flexibility of the languages | 第52页 |
| 5．1．3 To be more euphemistic and implicit for the sake of politeness | 第52页 |
| 5．2 Methods of Translation of Ambiguous Expressions in Legal Texts | 第52-54页 |
| 5．2．1 Equivalence | 第52-53页 |
| 5．2．2 Amplification | 第53页 |
| 5．2．3 Variation | 第53页 |
| 5．2．4 Omission | 第53-54页 |
| 5．2．5 Adjustment | 第54页 |
| 5．3 Errors in Legal Translation | 第54-58页 |
| 5．3．1 Common errors made by non-professionals | 第54页 |
| 5．3．2 Redundancy in legal translation | 第54-55页 |
| 5．3．3 Distortion in legal translation | 第55-58页 |
| 5．3．3．1 Distortion by abuse of commas | 第55-56页 |
| 5．3．3．2 Distortion by lack of legal knowledge | 第56-58页 |
| CHAPTER 6 THE CHANGING ROLE OF LEGAL TRANSLATORS AND THEIR PRINCIPLES | 第58-64页 |
| 6．1 The Changing Role of the Legal Translator | 第58-61页 |
| 6．1．1 Mediator in the past | 第58页 |
| 6．1．2 Text producer and ultimately co-drafter | 第58-59页 |
| 6．1．3 New methods of bilingual legal drafting | 第59-60页 |
| 6．1．4 Profile of the legal translator | 第60-61页 |
| 6．2 Legal Translators' Principles | 第61-64页 |
| 6．2．1 The principle of using formal words and expressions | 第61页 |
| 6．2．2 The principle of preciseness | 第61页 |
| 6．2．3 The principle of conciseness | 第61页 |
| 6．2．4 The principle of term consistency | 第61页 |
| 6．2．5 The principle of creativity | 第61-64页 |
| Conclusion | 第64-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-66页 |
