| Acknowledgments | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-11页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| 2. Legal English and Its Linguistic Features | 第13-32页 |
| ·Definition of legal English | 第13页 |
| ·Lexical features of legal English | 第13-21页 |
| ·Syntactic features of legal English | 第21-27页 |
| ·Stylistic features | 第27-30页 |
| ·Comparison between legal English and legal Chinese | 第30-32页 |
| 3. General Principles for Legal Translation | 第32-42页 |
| ·Translation nature and principles | 第32-33页 |
| ·Nature of translation | 第32页 |
| ·Principles for translation | 第32-33页 |
| ·Legal translation and principles for legal translation | 第33-36页 |
| ·Legal translation | 第33-34页 |
| ·Legal translation principles | 第34-36页 |
| ·Loyalty in legal translation | 第36-37页 |
| ·Creativity in legal translation | 第37-39页 |
| ·Plain language movement and legal translation | 第39-42页 |
| ·Some plain-language developments around the world | 第39-40页 |
| ·Two important elaborations of plain language | 第40-42页 |
| 4. Functionalist approach to Legal Translation | 第42-53页 |
| ·Functionalist translation theory | 第42-46页 |
| ·Development of the theory | 第42-43页 |
| ·Basic concepts of the theory | 第43-45页 |
| ·Comparison between traditional translation standards and Skopostheorie | 第45-46页 |
| ·Definition and functions of law | 第46-47页 |
| ·Aim of legal translation | 第47-49页 |
| ·Determining the meaning of plurilingual legal texts | 第48页 |
| ·The unity of the single instrument | 第48-49页 |
| ·The classification of legal texts | 第49-53页 |
| ·Functional classification of legal texts | 第49-50页 |
| ·Classification of legal texts in linguistic perspective | 第50页 |
| ·Classification of legal texts in legal field | 第50-51页 |
| ·Summary and the reason for choosing legislative text for study | 第51-53页 |
| 5. Functionalist Perspective on the English translation of Anti-secession law | 第53-62页 |
| ·Promulgation and implementation of Anti-secession law of China | 第53页 |
| ·Concrete analysis of the English version of Anti-secession law | 第53-62页 |
| 6. Conclusion | 第62-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-68页 |
| Appendix I | 第68-71页 |
