A Report On E-C Translation Of The Sales License Agreement For The Products And Services Of The 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games

Nowadays, business contracts and agreements as effective legal documents to stipulate the rights and obligations of the two parties involved play an increasingly significant role in the process of economic and trade transaction. Meanwhile, business translation becomes more prominent since it makes great contributions to the success of those exchanges. However, many of the translated business contracts are inaccurate, unprofessional and even awkward, not to mention some mistaken-translated messages. These unqualified translations lead to many legal disputes and financial losses, which is to a large extent due to the fact that when translating these business contracts, translators do not clearly understand the stipulations about the rights and obligations of the contracting parties, or because of the inappropriate diction or the ambiguous and vague statements as a result of inaccurate understanding of some of the technical terms in business and law issues.Based on the author's translation practice of E-C translation of the Sales License Agreement for the products and services of the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games in a translation company in Beijing, this report systematically describes the whole process of the translation of the agreement, and focuses on the linguistic features of the Sales License Agreement. The author analyzes a large number of cases to explain the translation strategies and methods we need when we do the E-C translation of business contracts of sports products.Specifically, in terms of translation at lexical level, the author adopts the set phrases for archaic words, omission or literal translation for juxtaposition, semantic translation or zero translation for technical terms; and uses conventional diction which stipulate rights and obligations to translate the modal verbs embodying conventional, mandatory and compulsory natures of English contract texts; at syntactic level, the author suggests division of attributive clauses, adjustment of adverbial clauses, and conversion of passive voices, etc. Finally the author summarizes her enlightenment from the translation practice and some practical translation strategies for English business contracts.