The Environmental Liability (Prevention And Remediation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) Translation Report

The Environmental Liability(Prevention and Remediation)Regulations(Northern Ireland)(briefly referred to as the Regulations)is a legal document of environmental protection.As a legal text belonging to the category of information texts,the Regulations shows language features of legal texts and texts of science and technology,hence its rarely seen quality.Therefore,the Regulations is worth translating and its studypossesses practical value and referential significance.This report mainly discusses the majorlinguistic features of and strategies and techniques for translation of The Regulations.First,the report briefly introduces the project,reviews relevant research,and points out the main methods of this study and its significance.Next,it describes and illustrates the language characteristics of The Regulations: frequent use of legal terms,fuzzy words,accurate words,derivatives,compounds and common words with legal meaning on the vocabulary level;common utilization of declarative sentences,long and complicated sentences,nominal phrases,etc.on the syntactic level.Meanwhile,it describes the translation process.Then,it discusses and proves such translation methods as the literal translation and liberal translation employed for translation of words and expressions and sentences,as well as other strategies and techniques for translation of compound sentences,passive sentences,special sentence patterns of legal English.Finally,the report summarizes the key points of the thesis,highlights the gains and enlightenments of the writer,and mentions the limitations of the thesis and further research aspects to be done.This thesis aims to help us understand the language characteristics of environmental protection laws,and to improve the quality of translations of such texts.