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1、ThePrinciplesfortheTranslationofEnglishIdiomsAbstract：Idiomsareimportant,peculiarandindispensablepartofalanguage.Theyarespeciallinguisticunits,fortheyaremainlycharacterizedbytheirstructuralstability,semanticunityandcontainvariouskindsofrhetoricaldevices
2、andthusacquireafigurativemeaning.Furthermore,beingheavilyloadedwithculturalelements,theybestreflectthecultureofanation.Consequently,theyhavebeendescribedasthecrystallizationoflanguageandtheconcentratedculture.Havingstrongnationalcharacteristicsaswellass
3、pecificlinguisticfeatures,theybringaboutdifficultiesintranslation.ThispapersuggeststheprinciplesthatmaybeappliedinthetranslationofEnglishidiomsandalsoofferssomepointsforattention.TheauthorhopesthatthispaperwillbeofsomehelpinguidingtheEnglishidiomtransla
4、tionandthusenhancingtheeffectivenessofculturalcommunication.Keywords：idioms;translation;principles1.IntroductionAccordingtoWebster’sNewWorldDictionaryoftheAmericanLanguage(andcollegeedition,1972),anidiomreferstoanacceptedphrase,construction,orexpression
5、contrarytotheusualpatternsofthelanguageorhavingmeaningdifferentfromtheliteral.Thatis,anidiommustbewellestablishedandacceptedthroughcommonpracticeandanidiomusuallyhasanimpliedmeaning.Ingeneral,noelementsintheidiomcanbechangedwithoutdestroyingthesenseasaw
6、holeandalsoitcannotbeinterpretedonlyaccordingtoitsliteralmeaning.Inabroadsense,Englishidiomsincludesetphrases,proverbs,sayings,colloquialisms,allusionsandslangs.Idiom’sareimportant,peculiarandindispensablepartofalanguage.Theyarespeciallinguisticunits,fo
7、rtheyaremainlycharacterizedbytheirstructuralstability,semanticunityandcontainvariouskindsofrhe2toricaldevicesandthusacquireafigurativemeaning.Furthermore,beingheavilyloadedwithculturalelements,theybestreflectthecultureofanation.Consequently,theyhavebeen
8、describedasthecrystallizationoflanguageandtheconcentratedculture.Anappropriateuseofthemwilladdtothestrengthandvividnessofourlanguage.Menofletters,inmodernorancienttimes,inChinaorEngland,allexcelinusingidioms.Becauseofthesepropert
