The problems of translation. These days, I have to deal with some translation work, such as international organizations' notes on G20. It's quite difficult for me though I have learned English for nearly 20 years>< Specifically, I met 2 difficulties. First and the most important one, I can't understand the sentence word by word. Here I mean, there're still some subtle words or structure which make me confused. For example, the notes mentioned "labour maket outcomes".I have searched the internet but just found some academic articles without a comprehensive definition of it. What's more, the structure also made me crazy. Especially some parallel structure which I couldn't tell the exact relation among the subjects. I know when I can't understand the word and the sentence well, I can't get the idea of the paragraph and the article. In that case, of course I can't translate the work well. Second one, It's hard for me to switch the ways of expression of English and Chinese easily. When my mom read my translation, she asked, "Is it Chinese?" which make me very frustrated. I guess it's because the order we're used to express is not the same. For example, in Chinese, the time , the place , or I should say , the adverbial is always at the front while it should be at the end in English. There're many other difference between the two language but I haven't summarized it. So the direct translation seems strange to native speakers. As you can see, if you can't understand the articles well and haven't got the technics of switching between the two languages, how could you be a good translator?! PS: Who has some good methods to improve translation?