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Engaged in the study of English and Chinese legal language and their translation, people may find that it is difficult to understand and translate legal documents. The main reason lies in the special sentences of legal language.
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Zhang, F. (2021). Comparison of Syntactic Features Between Chinese and Western Legal Languages. In: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Legal Language and Culture. Peking University Linguistics Research, vol 4. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9347-5_2
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