The Comparable Corpus-Based Chinese-English Translation——A Case Study of City Introduction
Jin Guang-s · Journal of Zhangzhou Normal University · 2009
Since only a limited pool of qualified native English-speaking translators can do Chinese-English translation,it is inevitable for native Chinese translators to translate out of their native language.Influenced by their mother tongue,Chinese translators often adopt some awkward expressions which do not exist in English.A comparable corpus on the subject of city introduction is constructed to explore how comparable corpus can be applied in C-E translation.It is argued that comparable corpus plays an irreplaceable role in terminology extraction,awkward collocation spotting and it can also pick out some small errors which are often neglected by non-native English speaking translators.