中英学术期刊英文摘要语言特征对比研究——以《湖北工业大学学报》和Nature为例

A Comparative Study of Linguistic Features in English Abstracts of Chinese and English Academic Journals—A Case Study of “Journal of Hubei University of Technology” and Nature

摘要: 为提升国内学术期刊英文摘要质量，本研究自建可比语料库，从词汇特征、句法特征、语态特征和时态特征等维度对比分析了中英学术期刊英文摘要，发现国内期刊英文摘要存在显著不足，主要归因于译者学术英语能力欠缺、国际规范认知不足、母语负迁移及专业审校缺失、“翻译思维”对学术文本表达的束缚。为此，建议译者突破翻译惯性，以“学术再创作”思维优化语言表达，强化学科词汇储备，精简句式，灵活运用语态与时态；期刊方则需完善译者培训机制，建立审校制度并定期更新翻译规范。这些措施将有效提升摘要翻译质量，促进学术成果的国际传播。

Abstract: To enhance the quality of English abstracts of domestic academic journals, this study has built a comparable corpus to compare and analyze English abstracts of domestic and international academic journals from dimensions such as lexical features, syntactic features, voice features, and tense features. The study finds that domestic English abstracts have significant deficiencies, mainly due to the lack of academic English ability of translators, insufficient awareness of international standards, negative transfer of the mother tongue, the absence of professional proofreading and the constraints of “translation thinking” on academic text expression. Therefore, it is suggested that translators break free from translation inertia and optimize language expression through an “academic re-creation” mindset, strengthening their vocabulary in specific disciplines, simplifying sentence structures, and flexibly using voice and tense. Journals should improve translators’ training mechanisms, establish proofreading systems, and regularly update translation standards. These measures will effectively enhance the quality of abstract translation and promote the international dissemination of academic achievements.