检测依据

00:06 Nov 14, 2021 

I have noted your two addenda to your original answer. The quotation in your first addenda suggests clearly to me that 依據 and 方法 might in fact very well be used interchangeably. Your second addenda suggests that they are indeed used interchangeably. We are concerned here with specialist usage, not general supposition.

23:42 Nov 13, 2021 

I made the explicit point when I raised the question that I was seeking the specialist term. It seems probable that I found it in the document I identified on the internet. I think we have probably exhausted this discussion.

23:35 Nov 13, 2021 

The concern is that if your translation is right, the source must be wrong. The reason is that 依据 can never be used to mean "method", as you used in your translation. It is just inconceivable to use 依据 to mean "method," no matter what the context is.

23:28 Nov 13, 2021 

The document was from a PRC medical instruments company; the natural presumption would be that it was produced by native Chinese speakers. It was an extremely professional-looking document. The client was in France. The target language was UK English. Language is often used to mean things beyond its literal meaning, and that can happen in specialist situations. Translations should be appropriate. That does not necessarily mean literal.

23:20 Nov 13, 2021 

your translation makes sense, but that is not what the source text literally means, and
the source text can be wrong.

23:05 Nov 13, 2021 

Maybe the authors of your source file/the reference you found are not native speakers of Chinese. It can also be the case that the native Chinese speakers who wrote these texts were not that serious about their own writing.

22:56 Nov 13, 2021 

I agree that on the face of it 檢測依據 doesn't literally mean 'testing method' but, as I pointed out, I found it used in a published document from the same company in the same context, a context in which it made sense. I'm grateful for your comments. The translation has been submitted and the client seems satisfied.

22:15 Nov 13, 2021 

The Chinese phrase has nothing to do with testing method, no matter what.

07:04 Nov 12, 2021 

I don't think it's testing method. the 依据 should be references such as standards, codes, specifications that the testing method is based on.

08:24 Nov 11, 2021 

Thank you very much for your answers. I ultimately decided on "testing method." It made the best sense in the context and I happened to find on the internet a document from the same company that produced my source document using precisely that phrase. I'm very grateful to you.