Abstract:

According to the concept of the main term components in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), this paper uses internal medicine of TCM as an example and selects main term components, then compares the similarity and difference of different standards by analyzing four kinds of the most advanced standards of TCM terms translation, discusses the principles and methods of main term components translation and provides the reasonable translation strategy. We hope our research can promote the process of translation standardization work for terms not only in the internal medicine of TCM but in the whole TCM.

Key words: traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), internal medicine of TCM, term components, translation