DEGREE OF INTENSITY in English-Chinese translation: a corpus-based approach

Table 3 Information on the texts and the reference corpora

	Data used	No. of word tokens	Year
Wild Swans-ST	All chapters	220,399	1991
Wild Swans-TT	All chapters	199,493^a	1992
Mao’s Last Dancer-ST	Chapters 6–22	79,503	2003
Mao’s Last Dancer-TT	Chapters 6–22	77,254^a	2009
FLOB	All categories	1,000,000	1991
FLOB	Category G (Belles-lettres, biographies, essays)	178,764	1991
LCMC	All categories	1,000,000	1991 ± 2
LCMC	Category G (biographies, essays)	129,746	1991 ± 2

^a As there are no spaces marking word boundaries in naturally-occurring Chinese texts, the word counts of the two TTs are estimated based on McEnery and Xiao’s (2003–2008) guideline of a ratio of 1:1.6 of words to characters. In comparison, LCMC is artificially segmented for word boundaries.