Risk Management in English Communication

摘要

A fundamental principle in translation is that each language includes unique systems of expression that often have no exact one-to-one correspondence in another language. Mandatory word order, idioms and colloquialisms from one source language are not easily translated into a target language. In short, text authored in one source language cannot be exactly reproduced in another target language without difficulty or approximation, which is to say without requiring more time and greater cost. Since translation represents the conversion of text from one linguistic system source language to another linguistic system target language, the success of the translation process relies on an appropriate conversion and conveyance of meaning, rather than on an exact, mechanical word-for-word transfer from one language into another.