A study of the characteristics of sentences & translation in business English;

This paper studies the characteristics of sentences in international economic trade contracts in English on basis of comparison between the English language and the Chinese language focusing on grammar, rhetoric, structure and logic, and introduces some methods and skills in translating these contracts.

A new concept called Elementary Event focus (EE_focus) is introduced.

Paragraph alignment is a very important function of bilingual sentence alignment, the dissertation puts forward a new paragraph alignment algorithm based on the anchor sentence pairs, and through combining it with the traditional method based on carriage return character, forms a multi level paragraph alignment algorithm.

The present paper focuses its attention on the pragmatic functions and the syntactic features of the discourse marker well in verbal interaction.

This paper reviews the history of EST lengthy sentences,analyzes in details their syntactic features in the perspective of traditional grammar and offers some corresponding tips concerning the segmentation of meaning units and restructuring in their Chinese translation.

To divide the verbal idiom into three transforming levels:looseness,tightness and frozenness,is benefit to analyze the syntactic features of the verbal idiom and the semantic restrictions in passive transformation and to completely master the usage of verbal idiom of "V+ NP+ Prep".