三个代表英文表述为“Party must always represent the development trend of China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people”
“three represents”作为上句的简称，是取原话中的谓语动词，我们在说“three represents”的时候实际上是在说上面那句话，并且“three represents”本身现在也已成为专有名词，就更加不容改动了；如果用了“three representative”的话，与原意也不符，因为“representative”作为名词虽然是指“代表”，但更侧重于指人而不是指事，如”人民代表大会“中的”代表“一词就是用”representative“