Target Text目标文本
The target text is the translated or localized output that a linguist produces in the target language to replace the source content. In CAT tool segment pairs, localized files, and published product copy, it appears as the right-side column or final target-language deliverable, and it is the primary object of review for accuracy, fluency, terminology consistency, register, and layout fit.
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Check source meaning → confirm the preferred term → record approved variants and references.
Where this term appears
Target text is the deliverable that reviewers, QA tools, and clients examine in translated documents, localized software builds, subtitle files, or website CMS entries. During linguistic sign-off and LQA, teams compare the target text against the source and style guide to catch mistranslations, truncation, or tone problems before final release.
Translation checks
Reviewers sometimes polish the target text in isolation and ignore source-text constraints such as placeholder positions, character limits, or legal wording requirements. This can create text that reads well but no longer matches the source functionally, causing broken UI, compliance risk, rejected deliverables, or expensive last-minute rework that could have been avoided earlier.
Keep the term aligned across your files
Creative and consumer content needs accurate meaning as well as tone and context. Subtitles, interfaces and voice scripts also require checks for timing, character limits and pronunciation.
Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
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English ⇄ ChineseBrand documentation.
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Working on content globalization documentation?
Include the source and target languages, file types, intended use, deadline and any approved termbase. Agree handling before sending sensitive files. Acknowledged in 4 hours, quoted in 24.
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