Translation of Abstracts in Scientific and Technological Papers on Water and Soil Conservation from Chinese into English
LI Xiao-xiang · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2006
As an important part of scientific and technological papers on water and soil conservation,the English abstracts in such papers serve as a window open to international communication and cooperation in water and soil conservation science and technology,also a general tool to guide academic communication in this field universally.The authors generalize and analyze seven rules which should be followed while translating the abstracts of this kind into English.They involve the use of articles,of persons,of tenses and voices,and of nominalization structure,precise word choice,proper amplification and omission of words,and the standards for translation.It can provide referential information for scientific research workers in the field of water and soil conservation to translate their abstracts accurately.