本书针对科技英语的特点，提出了当代翻译新理论关注的信息中心表达问题，介绍了以“事件”为单位的新型翻译法、“成分化简”的句子分析法、科技翻译中易被忽略的习惯用法等问题，并对科技体裁中英语的口语化、简约化潮流予以充分重视。书中专辟章节对汉英互译常见文句进行了正误对比详解。

1 Getting Started
Dialogues1
Welcoming a speaker
Welcoming visitors and introducing the
speaker
Saying who you are
Explaining the reasons for listening
Starting whth an interesting fact
Dialogues2
Giving background
Explaining the plan for the session
Qutlining a presentation
Questions while you talk
Questions at the end
Handouts at the end
Handoust now
2 Moving on
Dialogues1
Using questions to organise
Organising points
The general to the specific
Presenting options
Giving your opinion
Referring back
Changing topic
Dialogues2
Reporting bad news
Reporting positive information
Explaining the meaning of abbreviations
Explaingin the meaning of specific words/terms
Giving examples
Repeating your point using different words
Expressing possible/likely outcomes
Concluding and moving on
3 Numbers
Dialogues1
Percentages
fractions
Large and small numbers
Decimal points
Positive and negative numbers
Approximate numbers
Dialogues2
An increase
A decrease
Staying the same
High and low points
Predicting
Describing changes
4 Visual Aids
5 Problems and Questions
6 Concluding
Glossary
Answers