Accreditation Standards For The First Professional Doctorate In Acupuncture And/or Oriental Medicine English-Chinese Translation Practice Report

As an ancient country of the culture,China has long history and culture with thousands years.Traditional Chinese Medicine that one of the special Chinese cultures plays a significant role in developing World Medicine and especially the Acupuncture influence the whole world.In many western countries,professional education and higher education of acupuncture have been established.In the United States there are also set up a qualification test for acupuncture practitioners.A standard has been established for the qualifications of practitioners and institutions of higher education that offer professional education.Accreditation Standards For The First Professional Doctorate in Acupuncture and/or Oriental Medicine is released on the Official website of The Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine,(Hereinafter referred to as ACAOM)in 2013.It is about the qualifications or standards for the first doctoral degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine/TCM and it also guaranteed the results or achievements of higher professional education in colleges and universities.This paper focuses on how to determine the word meaning in professional background,to translate the modal verb and to add the words through the translation practice.From that it can be learned that the translations must be understood by professionals and non-professionals,which is the ultimate purpose of translation.In addition,translators should bring in more information about the acupuncture and/or oriental medicine.This paper can provide some reference for other translation practice.