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WU Chenchen, ZENG Shuang
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2025.11.007
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
With the continuous advancement of globalization and multilateral trade, the import and export of the automotive industry has developed rapidly. The automotive industry has gradually become an important part of industrial trade. This article aims to explore the lexical characteristics of terminology in the automotive industry in depth, including the abbreviation of terms, the singularity of meaning, and the frequent use of compound and derived words. By combining case analysis of translations and guided by Newmark’s communicative translation theory, the study has found that the following translation strategies can be applied to automotive industry terminology: literal translation under semantic translation and free translation under communicative translation. The authors hope to provide some reference and assistance for future translation of automotive industry terminology.
terms in the automotive industry, translation strategies, Newmark’s translation theory, lexical characteristics
WU Chenchen & ZENG Shuang, A Study on the Characteristics and Strategies of Translation in Automotive Industry Terminology in the Light of Newmark’s Translation Theory. US-China Foreign Language, November 2025, Vol. 23, No. 11, 423-428 doi:10.17265/1539-8080/2025.11.007
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