郭艳玲、王倩主编的《海洋工程英语阅读与翻译教程》以英语为载体，以海洋工程领域文章为依托，使学生在获取海洋工程相关知识的基础上，提高英语的阅读和翻译能力。本教程能拓宽学生视野和思路，扩大海洋工程英语词汇，扩充海洋工程英语的文体特征等系统知识，提高学生综合应用海洋工程英语的能力。
本教程包括海洋生物工程、海洋建筑工程、海洋运输工程、海洋信息工程、海洋土木工程等5个章节。每章节包括4个单元，每个单元分别包括A、B两篇课文及词汇、短语、专有名词、翻译及解析、练习和趣味短文等部分。教材内容新颖，跟踪海洋工程新发展，保持目的语文本与源语之间一定的关联性，图文并茂，是融科学性、可读性和实用性于一体的英语教材。
本教程主要特点：（1）着眼海洋，内容丰富。课文均选编于近年来英语国家出版的海洋领域教科书、科普知识网站和国内英语期刊上选载的海洋英语读物，知识和内容兼具实效性、普适性和专业性。（2）主题鲜明，实用性强。课文用词严谨，语言规范，突出海洋工程英语的语言特点，追求地道的海洋工程英语表达。（3）内容依托，特色突出。本教程以有特色的海洋工程主题文章为依托，有利于激发学生英语学习的积极性，使学生在学习文章内容的过程中习得语言。（4）侧重阅读与翻译。本教程的阅读与翻译内容涉及海洋工程的五大领域，内容丰富、实用性强。
《海洋工程英语阅读与翻译教程》有利于提高学生英语语言综合应用能力，尤其是阅读和翻译能力，使学生在了解海洋工程领域知识的过程中习得语言，是我国高校教育工作者内容依托教学的适用教材，也是本科生及研究生专业英语学习必要的参考书。本教程对培养适合21世纪需要的兼顾海洋工程知识和英语应用能力的复合应用型人才具有重要意义。

Chapter 1 Marine Biological Engineering
Unit 1 Marine Biotechnology
Text A What should be done in Marine Biotechnology?
Text B New and Emerging Analytical Techniques for Marine Biotechnology
Unit 2 Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
Text A Risk from Genetically Engineered and Modified Marine Fish
Text B Genomics Revolution and Microbial Genomics
Unit 3 Applications of Marine Creatures
Text A Seahorses--a Source of Traditional Medicine
Text B Commercial Applications of Microalgae
Unit 4 Marine Biotechnology: Problems and Challenges
Text A Coral Reef Organisms: Harvest, Conservation Concerns and Sustainable Management
Text B Marine Viruses: Beneficial Side of a Threat
Chapter 2 Marine Architecture Engineering
Unit 1 Ship Design
Text A General Introduction to Ship Design
Text B Ships Categorized
Unit 2 Ship Structure
Text A Hull Construction
Text B Seakeeping Performances
Unit 3 Ship Production
Text A Shipyard Facilities
Text B Workmanship for Hull Building
Unit 4 Shipbuilding Economy
Text A Status of the Shipbuilding Industry
Text B China's Shipbuilding Industry
Chapter 3 Marine Transportation Engineering
Unit 1 Marine Transportation
Text A Main Types of Cargo
Text B Dry Ports
Unit 2 Navigation
Text A Liner Shipping
Text B Voyage Charters
Unit 3 Cargo Operation
Text A Tally Companies
Text B Container Lashing
Unit 4 Rules and Regulations
Text A IMO
Text B Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) , 2006
Chapter 4 Marine Information Engineering
Unit 1 Navigation Course Systems
Text A The Magnetic Compass and the Gyrocompass
Text B Radar and ARPA
Unit 2 Positioning and Navigational Communication Systems
Text A GPS
Text B AIS
Unit 3 The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
Text A GMDSS
Text B Inmarsat
Unit 4 Maritime Mobile Communication Systems
Text A Maritime Mobile Services
Text B VHF Communications
Chapter 5 Marine Civil Engineering
Unit 1 Cross-Water Civil Engineering
Text A The Golden Gate Bridge
Text B The Yangtze--a Deep Chasm Becomes a Thoroughfare
Unit 2 Underwater Civil Engineering
Text A The Channel Tunnel: the Dream Becomes Reality
Text B Submarines
Unit 3 Coastal Civil Engineering
Text A Shoring up Coastal Engineering
Text B Breakwaters
Unit 4 Offshore Civil Engineering
Text A Offshore Engineering
Text B Jacket Platforms
Key to the Exercises