A Report On The Translation Of An Approved Judgement Between Carpatsky Petroleum Corporation And PJSC Ukrnafta

The research on the translation of legal texts plays an essential role in dealing with legal globalization issues.The source text of this translation report is a judgment named An Approved Judgement between Carpatsky Petroleum Corporation and PJSC Ukrnafta,which was selected from the official website of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute(www.bailii.org).It is expected that the translation of the judgment may help the translator accumulate translation experience and thus improve the accuracy of the translation of legal documents.The report analyzes the text type of the source text,summarizes the problems encountered in the translation process,and discusses translation strategies from lexical and syntactical levels that may help to solve those problems.From the lexical dimension,it can be seen that fuzzy words,alien words,archaic words,couples,legal terms,and common words with legal meanings are widely used in the source text.From the syntactic dimension,it can be found that there exist a lot of nominalized structures,fixed structures,conditional sentences,and complex sentences.In order to solve the problems mentioned above,firstly,the translator recommends that the translation of the legal text should focus on the content of the source text based on the features of informative texts and that efforts should be made to reproduce its meaning in order to realize the social function of translation.And then,under the guidance of communicative translation theory,the translator applies translation techniques such as division,reversion,and conversion to specific cases.The report aims to provide references for the translation of similar legal documents.