Make good use of legal dictionary 善用紙本法律辭典

I have been working on Taiwan legal document translation for one whole week. I slightly slowed down the speed of my translation process amid longer turnaround time. The slow but smooth work is only possible with the help of printed legal dictionary.

The dictionary – A Chinese – English Dictionary of Law – was a 2009 version published in Taiwan. Most of legal terms used in Taiwan, I believed, were included in the dictionary.

It is a very good source for me to write legal terms consistently in documents. To search a Chinese legal term, firstly, you need to count the stroke of the first word and look up for the page number and find the Chinese term for the correct English term.

Yes, it takes some time. But the good thing is, I spend more time on the first draft so that I spend much shorter time on proofreading.

本週一直忙著臺灣的法律類翻譯案子。這次文件翻譯的作業時間較長，我稍微放慢翻譯速度以善用紙本法律辭典。我手上有一本非常好用的臺灣2009年版本《法律漢英辭典》，因為臺灣使用的法律詞彙相信大多數都已收錄書中。

有了這本辭典，我的法律類翻譯可以寫比較穩定的詞彙，從而減少不劃一詞彙所帶來的混淆。給臺灣的中文法律詞彙找出合適、專業的英文專有名詞確實比較花時間，但好處是長些時間寫第一稿，審稿時候就節省好多時間。