title: [How to simplify and shorten the English translation of traditional Chinese medicine].
abstract: Aiming at the present tedious English translation of traditional Chinese medicine, the author advocates some approaches to simplify it in order to improve the readability, communicability and quality of translation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Foreign Languages, Xi 'an University of Science and Technology, Xi' an. shixinmin126@126.com
authors.forename: Xin-min
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods; D007802:Language; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D014177:Translations