On EST Sentence Translation Based on English and Chinese Structures: Natural Linear Expansion vs. Reversed Linear Expansion
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1104.09Keywords:
EST (English of Science and Technology), natural linear expansion, reversed linear expansion, translation tacticsAbstract
With the development of science，new subjects with a new technical vocabulary spurt from technology and science, and it makes translation in EST more difficult. It turns out that similarities between English and Chinese can be handled easily in translation, while differences between the two make translation in EST a hard task. The intention of this study is to analyze the formulas of the patterns between English and Chinese in thinking and explore possible advantages in translation practice.
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