Functional Recontextualization and the Translation of Business Readings: A Case Study on the Translation of The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

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WU Jianguo, ZHANG Yingyue, HAO Meili. Functional Recontextualization and the Translation of Business Readings: A Case Study on the Translation of The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2020, 20(3): 120-128.

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