Abstract: The translation of polysemous legal terms is an important and also difficult part in translation. From cognitive perspective, this paper studied the concrete ways in which context can help the translation of polysemous legal terms and the important factors that may affect the recontextualization process for translating polysemous legal terms. This paper constructed a multi-level cognitive context model for translating polysemous legal terms. This paper provided translation with a cognitive approach to the analysis of contextual parameters for translating polysemous legal terms. And also provide translators with feasible solutions to the problems concerning the translation of polysemous legal terms.

Key words: translation teaching, contextual parameters, polysemous legal terms