Lexical Features Of Industry Reports From Translation Of Market Study Of Khushuut’s Coal Resources

Industry research report, one kind of research reports that focuses on a specific industry, gives an analysis and forecast on the future development trend of the industry in question, based on in-depth study of a huge amount of first-hand data collected during field investigations as well as the industry characteristics and past experience, hence possessing such characteristics as being professional, objective and forward-looking.By analyzing both the original English version and the translated Chinese version of the Main Report and Appendix C of the Market Study of Khushuut’s Coal Resources, the paper summarizes the lexical features of the report and corresponding translation strategies, and discusses its writing style and reference significance to the writing of such reports.The paper comprises mainly four parts. Introduction to the object of study- the market research report- and its significance is made in the first part, followed by a description of the task procedure, which includes pre-translation preparation, process of translation and proofreading. The third part gives typical cases for analysis of the lexical features from the three aspects of technical words, vague words and legal words; the translation of technical words is elaborated from aspects of industry-specific general terms, terms of distinct Chinese characteristics and semi-professional terms, while that of hedges mainly from aspects of rounders and adaptors. The last part is the conclusion that summarizes experience of the translation task.