On Translation Of Long Composite Sentences In Legal English

China is a country ruled by law. Generally speaking law is the advantageous safeguard for our normal life, and also a tool for maintaining the normal operation of the State. The legal language is the carrier and the embodiment of the law, which is also the language of the law, and the professional English. With the gradual improvement of the socialist market economy and the deepening of China’s reform and opening up policy, China is speeding up the process of legal construction. In order to let the world know more about the Chinese legal system and policies and regulations, further introduce the foreign investment, and promote economic development and prosperity in China, The legal translation is becoming more and more important. What’s more, it is necessary to study and learn the experience about laws and regulations from other developed countries. The legal documents must be precisely and objectively stimulate the rights and obligations of citizens, moreover not allow any exaggeration or with the expression of rich in emotion, which makes the legal English is different from the general English in characteristics. The style of the legal English is logical, serious and solemn. The most significant feature is using the long composite sentence. This paper describes and analyses the long composite sentence and its translation principles of legal English as well as its structural characteristics, focusing on legal English translation strategy of the long composite sentence, and set examples about the adverbial clause, and attributive clause respectively. It is expected that the description and analysis may bring some understandings and inspirations in translation of legal documents.