erdEducation Reform and Development2652-53642652-5372Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.10.26689/erd.v7i1.9571ArticleA Study on the Errors of Machine Translation in Political Propaganda Texts of the Energy Fieldhttps://artdesignp.com/journal/erd/7/1/10.26689/erd.v7i1.9571ChenMan2025712025-02-10In this study, the paper “China’s Energy Development in the New Era” was selected as the research object, and three representative machine translation tools, Baidu Translate, Google Translate and ChatGPT, were used. Through comparative analysis, this study aims to reveal the differences in the number and types of errors shown by these three translation tools in processing specific texts, and provide implications for post-editing.

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