A STUDY ON THE ENGLISH VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION OF TERMS IN THE MATERIALS FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude towards my supervisor, Dr. Le
Hung Tien for providing me with precious lectures, valuable guidance, and constructive
criticism.
I also would like to thank the staff members at Post Graduate Studies Department,
University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University - Hanoi for
supplying me with valuable knowledge, experience, and materials.
My special thanks go to the English teachers at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Hanoi
University of Technology for providing me with the valuable knowledge of English,
especially English for Mechanical Engineering.
Last but not least, I am grateful to my family and my friends whose support and
encouragement have been a great source of inspiration for me to complete the thesis.
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ABSTRACT
Mechanical Engineering is one of the most basic engineering sciences and technical
translation makes much contribution to its development. Technical term translation is part of
technical translation, so it plays an important role in the development of Mechanical
Engineering.
The thesis studies the English – Vietnamese translation of terms in the materials for
Mechanical Engineering. First, the thesis collects and groups English Mechanical
Engineering terms and Vietnamese ones. Next, the thesis works out and compares the
English terms with the Vietnamese ones to finds out appropriate Vietnamese equivalents for
the English terms. The thesis aims to draw out common translation strategies which can be
applied in the English-Vietnamese translation of terms in materials for mechanical
engineering.
Hopefully, the result of the study would be useful in technical translation especially
translation in mechanical engineering, dictionaries editing, English language teaching as well
as for the standardization of Vietnamese mechanical engineering terminology.
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