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Moving boundaries in translation studies 翻译研究中的移动边界

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2021-11-16 DOI: 10.1556/084.2021.00019

Hu Wenjuan, Junping Liu

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Translation skills required by Master’s graduates for employment: Which are needed, which are not? 硕士毕业生就业所需的翻译技能:哪些是需要的，哪些是不需要的?

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2021-11-16 DOI: 10.1556/084.2021.00012

Yu Hao, A. Pym

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Broadening the scope of error categories in translation assessment through screen recording 通过屏幕记录扩大翻译评估中的错误类别范围

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2021-11-16 DOI: 10.1556/084.2021.00021

E. Angelone

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Coping with syntactic complexity in English–Chinese sight translation by translation and interpreting students. 翻译学生对英汉视译中句法复杂性的应对。

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2021-11-16 DOI: 10.1556/084.2021.00014

Xingcheng Ma

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引用次数: 2

Sovietisms as cultural, social and historical realia in English retranslations of Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs 布尔加科夫《致命的蛋》英译中的苏联主义作为文化、社会和历史现实

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2021-11-16 DOI: 10.1556/084.2021.00016

N. Vid, Petra Žagar-Šoštarić

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2021-11-16 DOI: 10.1556/084.2021.00020

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A syntactic complexity analysis of translational English across genres 跨体裁翻译英语的句法复杂性分析

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2021-11-16 DOI: 10.1556/084.2021.00015

Jiajin Xu, Jialei Li

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Corrigendum: Translationese and interlanguage in inverse translation: A case study 勘误表：反译中的译文和中介语：案例研究

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1556/084.2021.00011

M. Yue, Boyang Sun

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Investigating usability in postediting neural machine translation: Evidence from translation trainees' self-perception and performance 神经机器翻译编辑后可用性研究——来自翻译学员自我认知和表现的证据

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2021-05-27 DOI: 10.1556/084.2021.00006

Xiangling Wang, Tingting Wang, Ricardo Muñoz Martín, Yanfang Jia

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引用次数: 10

Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies. New Resources and Applications 对比与翻译研究中的平行语料库。新资源及应用

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2021-05-27 DOI: 10.1556/084.2021.00008

María-Teresa Ortego-Antón

引用次数: 8