Report On C-E Translation Of "De" Structures With Conditional Implications In The Trademark Law Of P. R. China

This translation report acts as a summary for my C-E translation project of Trademark Law of P.R. China, and its emphases is on how to translate into English the Chinese "De" structures with conditional implications. This project is a simulation practice for the purpose of strengthening my translation ability.The Trademark Law of P.R. China contains lots of "De" structures with conditional implications which should be translated into conditional clauses due to linguistic differences between Chinese and English. The great change pose great difficulty to translation. The first difficulty lies in the diversified and complex structures with intricate logical relations. The second stems from "De" structures’vacancy of conjunctions which should not miss in their corresponding English translations and the choice of the conjunction is affected by the complexity of structure.This project adopts Vermeer’s Skopos Theory to the translation of’De’ structures with conditional implications. The target readers of the translation are English-speaking people eager to get acquainted with the trademark law of China, and the purpose of translation is to provide them with a complete and readable English version. The author adopts the method of syntactic linearity for the phrasal verb+’De’structures, the methods of restructuring and disconnecting for simple clauses and complex clauses+’De’structures.The conjunction if or where is chosen according to the rules of legal English.The translator adopts different translation methods in this report hoping that the difficulties of translating "De" structures with conditional implications could be solved and at the same time, could provide some enlightenment for other translators confronted with similar difficulties.