简明英语运动促使主要英语国家纷纷出台语言政策，倡导立法英语简明化。然而，本文基于语料库的研究表明，古旧词、外来词、冗余表达等传统语言特征仍不同程度地存在于这些国家的立法文本之中，说明简明英语运动并未从根本上改变立法语言晦涩、繁复的现状。国内的立法文本英文版不仅存在上述特征，其频率还超出英语国家的立法文本。本文提出，中国法律的对外传播应做到真正的简明化，以便更好地满足英语受众对法律语言的期待。

The Plain English Movement has prompted major English-speaking countries to introduce language policies advocating the simplification of legislative English. However, this corpus-based study shows that traditional linguistic features—such as archaic words, loanwords and redundant expressions—still persist to varying degrees in the legislative texts of these countries, indicating that the Plain English Movement has not fundamentally altered the opacity and complexity of legislative language. The English versions of Chinese legislative texts not only exhibit these features but do so with even greater frequency than those in English-speaking countries. This paper argues that the overseas dissemination of Chinese law should pursue genuine simplification so as to better meet the expectations of English-speaking audiences regarding legal language.