Application of a Web Search Engine in Translating Business Terms in English-Chinese Dictionaries

• 作者: HE Jianing WU Minghui XIE Zijun XU Rong ZHOU Zhiyi
• 来源期刊: 中美英语教学:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: web SEARCH engine BUSINESS TERM ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARY translation
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（9）
• 页码范围: 454-458
• 页数: 5页
• 分类号: H

摘要

Web search engines are important tools for lexicography.This paper takes translation of business terms("e-commerce"and"e-business")as an example to illustrate the application of web search engines in English-Chinese dictionary translation,including the methods of(1)finding the potential Chinese equivalents of the English business terms,and(2)selecting typical and proper Chinese equivalents in accordance with the frequencies and the meanings of the English business terms respectively.