经贸英语涉及的范围极广,其内容除包括贸易业务本身之外,还与法律、银行业、仓储运输、国际金融、广告、包装、海上保险以及度量衡有关。因此,经贸英语翻译的难度较大,一词一句往往都需反复捉摸和推敲。就以“公司”一词为例,笔者近日拜读了胡仲胤的《“公司”的几种常见英译法》(见《中国翻译》1993年第1期,以 Economic and trade English covers a very wide range, in addition to its content, including the trade business itself, but also with the law, banking, warehousing and transportation, international finance, advertising, packaging, marine insurance and weight measurement. Therefore, the translation of trade and economic English is more difficult, a word often need to be elusive and scrutiny. Take the term “company” as an example, the author recently read Hu Zhongyin’s “Several Common English Translation Methods of the Company” (see “China Translation”, No. 1, 1993