| In the context of globalization, a country’s development cannot be divorced fromthe world market especially capital market. Securities investment funds, as afundamental component for securities market, is developing rapidly in China. It exertsan important influence on the stability and prosperity of Chinese securities market andthe financial sector. Therefore, it is fundamental to perfect the system of basic lawsand administrative regulations for sound and steady development of the securitiesmarket. China has promulgated the Regulatory Procedures for the Sale of SecuritiesInvestment Funds of the People’s Republic of China in2013. However, the Englishversion of this new law has not yet been published. To help foreign investors betterunderstand the law and facilitate their investment in China, the author decided totranslate its complete text.With the theory of functional equivalence proposed by Eugene A. Nida as theguidance, the author tries to faithfully convey original information in terms ofmeaning, and represent the characteristics of legislative texts in terms of style. Thereport begins by stating the significance and features of the source text and describingthe translation process, and aims at exemplifying the strategies at lexical, syntactic,and textual levels respectively according to the theory of functional equivalence.The author sincerely hopes that the translation of the original departmentregulation will contribute to enhancing foreign investors’ moral awareness andstandardizing the securities investment fund market in China, and that her experiencesin this report will shed some light for future learners on the Chinese-Englishtranslation of legislative texts. |
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