Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of corpus-based translation studies that appeared in the beginning of the 1990s. Corpus linguistics has provided a new weapon for translation studies, broadened the research scope and introduced a brand-new thought pattern for translation scholars. This paper introduces the design and application of Translational English Corpus. Besides, it makes an objective assessment to corpus-based translation studies and analyses the potential of Translational English Corpus. Key words: Corpus; Corpus linguistics; Translation studies; Advantages; Limitations Resumé: Ces dernières années ont connu une croissance importante des études de traduction à base de corpus qui est apparue au début des années 1990....