The Impossibility of Translating the Titles and Abstracts of the Theses by Machine  

作　　者：WANG Xiao-yan ZHAO Chun-hui 

机构地区：[1]Changchun University, Changchun, China

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2012年第12期1846-1849,共4页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：Based on the authors＇ experience of supervising English majors＇ B.A. thesis writing and situation of the thesis writing nowadays in China, the present paper makes a comparative analysis of the translation of the titles and an abstract between people and machine. Machine traslation in this paper refers to the translation with the help of online translation software. The paper proves that because of the imperfect of translation online software, it is unsatisfactory and even impossible to translate theses faithfully from Chinese to English by machine. The paper suggests that instead of totally depending on it to write theses, we can only regard it as an assistant

关 键 词：machine translation THESIS IMPOSSIBILITY 

分 类 号：TP391.2[自动化与计算机技术—计算机应用技术] H152.3[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]