Course :Legal and business translation

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Course :Legal and business translation

Question:

Elfarhaty ch 4

Decide what technique is used in the following translations:

Adaptation, calque, borrowing, equivalence, literal translation, transposition

Translation

The technique

 النائب العام = Attorney general

عقارب الساعة = clock hands

مهر =dowry

 

كريسماس = Christmas

 

Burger= برجر

 

Lame duck = بطة عرجاء

 

Break the law= يخالف القانون

 

A know it all = أبو العريف

 

He saw the bird when he got up= شاهد العصفور عند استيقاظه

شاهد العصفور عندما استيقظ

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