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One of the reasons to use a translation corpus is to permit the direct investigation of practical translation resources produced by human translators. Corpus-based studies have become a new method of investigation in modern contrastive linguistics and translation studies. As empirical research, they extract precise data from a corpus and for the efficient study of these data. But most corpus mainly is composed by two texts (original text and translation text) and thus they are restricted to create translation correspondences one by one. Using a corpus for translation studies is to observe the various translation correspondences and to find out the universals of translation. In this way, a pair of one original text and one translation text is inadequate to fully explain the various characteristics of translation phenomena. Therefore, the multiple translation texts are needed to completely describe the universal features of human translation.