In the light of functional linguistics, this paper analyzes the text-oriented translation teaching process of the abstracts for academic articles on medical science from two aspects including the thematic structure and cohesive system. It discusses the translation methods of language structures such as theme and rheme,reference, ellipsis and conjunction. It testifies the feasibility of text-based college English translation teaching and explores the efficacy of functional approach to text-oriented translation teaching. This study is supposed to provide new pe...
