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ISSN 1798-4769 Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 403-407, March 2016 DOI: /10.17507/jltr.0702.22 Tips for College Science Majors in English-Chinese Translation Practice Lili Wang Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China Abstract—after an experiment of teaching science majors EST translation, the author explains the importance for science majors to learn and practice English-Chinese translation, and provides some theoretical foundations science majors should learn when they do the translation practice. At the same time, the author summaries some unique stylistic features in EST and some tips students should notice in translation practice considering these stylistic features. Index Terms—EST (English for science and technology), stylistic characteristic, nominalization, composite sentence I. INTRODUCTION Generally speaking, translation is a linguistic practice of employing one language to realize the thoughts expressed in another language exactly and completely Zhang, 2009). Translation is the bridge between different languages when people communicate different ideas, which enables people of different languages to communicate ideas through reproduction of source languages. To make it simple, translation is to express message of one language (source language) in the form of another language (target language), so that the target language reader could understand what the writers of source language want to express and get similar reading comprehension of source language readers. While different languages account for different information systems, how to fit the information in one langua