晦涩难解的法律术语和复杂的句法结构,是法律英语的一大特点。它的自身特点给涉外律师法律文件的翻译工作带来了诸多困境,甚至导致涉外律师对法律文件翻译活动的搁浅。本文立足法律英语的自身特点,试图从法律文件的重要性、涉外律师的知识构成、法律英语自身特点、文化差异等方面论述涉外律师在法律文件翻译过程中的困境,并提出了相关的对策。 Obscure legal terms and complex syntactic structures are a hallmark of legal English. Its own characteristics bring many difficulties to the translation of legal documents of foreign lawyers and even lead foreign lawyers to run agrarian translation activities. Based on the characteristics of legal English, this article attempts to discuss the predicament of foreign lawyers in the translation of legal documents from the importance of legal documents, the constitution of knowledge of foreign lawyers, the characteristics of legal English and cultural differences, and puts forward some countermeasures.