Translation Style Guide World Bank（世界银行的翻译风格指南）.pdf

THE WORLD BANK TRANSLATION STYLE GUIDE SPANISH EDITION © 2004 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank Translation Services 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20433 Version 1.0, printed June 2004 Printed in the United States of America Readers are welcome to reproduce portions of this work. Please credit The World Bank, Translation Services. Suggestions for additions or improvements to this guide are welcome (translation-vm@). ENGLISH World Bank Translation Style Guide FRENCH Version 1.0 ARABIC SPANISH Table of Contents RUSSIAN Preface 1 General Guidelines 3 Introduction 3 Sample/Standard World Bank Text 4 Capitalization 9 General Guidelines 9 Geographic Names 9 Institutional Names 10 Project Names 11 Punctuation, Headings, Titles 13 Punctuation 13 Headings, Titles 15 Acronyms, Abbreviations, Compounds 17 Acronyms and Abbreviations 17 Compound Words 18 Numbers, Measurements 21 General Guidelines 21 Dates 21 Time 22 Ranges of Numbers, Dates, Pages 22 Ordinal Numbers 22 Commas, Decimals 23 Units of Measurement 23 Curr