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/elt English Language Teaching Vol. 5, No. 4; April 2012 Research on the Translation of Public Signs Ma Qiannan Foreign Languages School, Zhengzhou University, Zheng Zhou, 450001, China E-mail: maqiannan123@126.com Received: January 3, 2012 Accepted: February 3, 2012 Published: April 1, 2012 doi:10.5539/elt.v5n4p168 URL: /10.5539/elt.v5n4p168 Abstract Because of the increasing international image of China, the translation of public signs in city has become the very important issue. From the point of view of cross-cultural communication, the public signs have crucial influence on the image of the city, even for the whole China. However, there exist many translation errors of the public signs in China. This paper makes some research and analysis on the Chinese-English translation of public signs. On account of the current situation of public signs’ translation in China, and take the characteristics and function of the public signs into consideration, this paper proposes some main principles and strategies which public signs’ translation should pay attention to. Keywords: Translation, Public Signs, Error analysis, Principles and strategies 1. Introduction With our economic development and acceleration of opening to outside, it has a great growing about international friendship and economic cooperation. Besides, the international communication become more frequently. Public signs are the important part consisting of language and human environment in the international city and tourist destination. The sucess of Beijing Olympic Games and World Expo 20