The Application Of Division And Combination In Chinese Translation Of English Marine Crane Processing Contract

For adapting to the rapid development of Chinese economy, business contracts have become international and it has related to all industries. The translation quality of business contracts is crucial in that it is not only related to the immediate interests of individuals and companies but also the interests of the country. The text form is special because it has both the characteristics of legal texts and business texts. Therefore, it is vital for translator to fully understand the text features of contract and translation skills.In this article, the English processing contract for marine crane will be regarded as the object of translation practice. Through this translation task, the article will focus on exploring the features of English contracts and some translation strategies. Meanwhile it will also discuss the effect of division and combination in English-Chinese translation. The article begins with the introduction of this translation task which includes background and source, a summary of business contracts, linguistic features and structure of contracts. Then, this article will make descriptions of translation process that contain the relevant information about contract, the organization of basic terminology and the basic steps of contract translation. After getting started with contracts translation, this article will discuss and illustrate the translation skills with examples. This part will include some common translation strategies that are about adverbial clause and attributive clause, and the cause and translation skills of long sentences. However, the key part is to analyze and discuss two strategies, division and combination. Finally, this article will summarize the translation practice, and elaborate the problems and solutions of translation process and what gains. Furthermore, it is expect that this article will play a role of enlightenment in contracts translation.