西医术语的中译基本上是统一的。与之相反,中医术语的英译则一向十分混乱,从未统一过。究其原因,主要有二:一、中国人大规模地学习西医已有大半个世纪.因此,西医术语中译的统一客观上有其需要。早在本世纪初西方教会即陆续在我国建立协和、圣约翰、湘雅、齐鲁、华西、 Chinese translation of terminology is basically uniform. On the contrary, English translation of TCM terms has always been very chaotic and never unified. There are two main reasons for this: First, Chinese people have been studying Western medicine for more than half a century on a large scale. Therefore, there is a need for the unification of objective translation of Western terminology. As early as the beginning of this century, the Western churches gradually established Concorde, Saint John, Xiangya, Qilu, Huaxi,