Translation Report For Federal Rules Of Evidence In A Nutshell(Article 1 To 2)

After two hundred years of development, the United States law of evidence has accumulated rich theoretical resources and practical experience, which has a significant reference to the establishment and improvement of evidence law in China. Therefore, the author chooses article 1 and 2 of Federal Rules of Evidence in a Nutshell as the research object. This book, written by Michael H. Graham, who is a famous scholar of law fields in the United States, itemizes main provisions of Federal Rules of Evidence in brief paragraphs and concise way and is a great guide to the study and research of United States evidence law.The main difficulties of the translation text are polysemy of legal terms and complexity of syntactic structures. In dealing with polysemy of legal terms, the meaning shall be determined in light of the context so that they can be translated precisely; and in dealing with the complicated sentences, translation techniques of order-changing, splitting, and transformation are adopted.