Analysis of Financial Terminology Translation Methods: Based on Basic Economics—A Common Sense Guide to the Economy as Corpus

Taking the Chinese translation of Applied Economics Thinking Beyond Stage One of Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy as the corpus, a series of typical financial terminology translations are selected for discussion and analysis. The book is one of the books by American economist Thomas Sowell, which is written in simple, interesting, and easy-to-understand terms, and is designed as an example of how all people, without any prior financial knowledge, can understand some of the key economic topics of the time. The paper covers terminological unity, accuracy of translated terms, and names of related organizations from two major levels: linguistic and communicative. The discussion of these examples shows that the translation of financial terminology should observe conciseness and accuracy to achieve communicative effect.

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