The target text and the «translator's text»

The article deals with the most frequent and at the same time the less terminolized word target text. The sense of this concept is studied by means of the comparative analysis with that of the concept translator's text. The analysis reveals different contents of the concepts. The target text having semantic links with the source text fixes and standardizes them. The translator's text reveals the links with the derived sense constructed by the translator. In this sense the translator's text is a metatext. The material data proves the individual character of the translator's text.