The Design of Chinese-English/English-Chinese Parallel Translational Corpus and Its Application in Translation Studies;

Issues of translation universals have recently been discussed in corpus-based translation studies.

As an empirical methodology,corpus-based translation studies tries to describe the laws of translation by studying existing translation texts in a quantitative and statistic way.

Universals of translation, which are represented by simplification, explicitation, normalization, convergence and leveling out, etc, have been the most successful realm of corpus-based translation studies.

TEC(Translational English Corpus) is the first and largest translational English corpus in the world,which consists of written English translations from a range of source languages.