Translation Strategies of Numerical Phrases in the Government Work Report

Numerical phrases usually refer to expressions where the common part is extracted when describing several similar things, with a number prefixed to the word. This form avoids redundancy caused by overly long texts, making expressions concise, powerful, and highly expressive. This study takes the original texts and official translations of numerical phrases in the 2019-2023 Government Work Report (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") as the corpus, and explores the translation strategies of numerical phrases through literature research and self-built corpus methods. Through the construction and retrieval of the self-built corpus, it is found that the translation of numerical phrases in the Report mainly includes five methods: literal translation, literal translation with paraphrasing, free translation, ignoring and not translating, and modifying translation. This study provides references for researchers and translation learners engaged in political text translation, and makes up for the shortcomings of existing studies to a certain extent.