In contrast to ordinary corpora,multimodal corpora can better reserve the audio and visual information of interpreting scenes.After an overview on the construction of multimodal corpus in the world,this article mainly discusses an annotation scheme of a multimodal corpus for interpreting studies,in terms of collection of audio and video files,segment and transcription,multi-tier annotation model(e.g.the annotation of verbal signs,paralinguistic phenomena and nonverbal signs),the alignment of source text and target text in line with the time a...