A Practice Report On The E-C Translation Of Mining Act 1978(Part ?A-Part ?)Western Australia

The source text Mining Act 1978(Part IVA-Part VI)Western Australia is excerpted from Mining Act 1978 Western Australia.The Mining Act 1978 Western Australia is about the mining resources in Western Australia.This act has not been translated by others before,but there were some researches about the mining resources made by others according to Ming Act 1978 Western Australia.This thesis is made up of four parts: translation task description,translation process description,translation cases analysis and the summary of translation practice.The first part is about the background of the source text,mainly about the translation task background description,an analysis of the structure and features about the source text,the difficulties the author met and the theory used in the translation.The translation task source,preparation before translation,the translation process and the post-translation make up the second part.The body part is the third part,based on Newmark's text analysis theory,the author has given some analysis and examples about the legal English translation from lexical level and syntactical level according to the communicative translation and semantic translation.The author also summarized some translation skills such as addition and abridgement.The last part is the conclusion and reflection of the translation report,which describes the shortcomings and limitations of the translation process and gives some suggestions for the legal English translation.The author hopes to provide some guidance and some information for the businessman who wants to cooperate with Australians in mining resource.