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1、CulturalDefaultandTranslationCompensationinEnglish-ChineseTranslationofProverbs英汉谚语翻译中的文化缺失与翻译补偿AbstractThispaperanalyzestheculturesinproverbtofindtheculturaldifferencesbetweenEnglishandChineseproverbs,andtriestostudythewaytobridgetheculturaldefault.So,Englishproverbcanbetranslatedwiththewayoftran
2、sliberation.Andinterculturalcommunicationwillbeachievedsuccessfullyandinterculturalcooperationandspreadwillberealized.KeyWordsProverbculture;culturaldefault;transliberation;translationcompensation摘 要本文从谚语文化角度着手,分析谚语中的文化因素,以及英汉谚语中的文化差异,尝试研究在谚语的英汉翻译过程中发生文化缺失时如何弥合。最终通过意译手段实现英语谚语的可译性,从而顺利完成跨文化交际活动,实现国
3、际间的文化交流与传播。关键词:谚语文化;文化缺失;意译;翻译补偿IntroductionThereareseveralstandardsabouttranslationcriteriainandabroad.YanFuadvocatedthethreewordsastranslationcriteria,namely,“faithfulness,smoothnessandelegance”.Fraseradvocated“Ratherbealikeinspiritthaninappearance”.ZhangPeijiadvocated“faithfulnessandsmoothness”
4、.EugeneA.Nadaadvocated“functionalequivalence”or“dynamicequivalence”.Thosestandardsinfluenceeachotherandimprovegradually.Althoughtheyfocusondifferently,theyhaveacommonaimthattranslationshouldgiveacompletetranscriptoftheideasoftheoriginalwork;thestyleandthemannerofwritingshouldbeofthesamecharacteras
5、thatoftheoriginal,andtranslationshouldlookasalltheeaseoforiginalcomposition.Intoday’ssociety,translationisnotonlythegenerativespeechsemiotics,butalsoabehaviorininterculturalcommunication.Peopleuse“interculturalcommunication”,“interculturalcooperation”,“acculturation”and“transculturation”toreplace“
6、translation”.TheculturaldifferenceofEnglishandChinese,proverbmayhasthesameliteralmeaningandfigurativemeaning,butdifferentimpliedmeaning.Andimpliedmeaningistherealmeaningwhichthespeakerorwriterwantstoexpress.ThedifferencesbetweenEnglishandChineseproverbscanbeconvergedintotwocategories:figurativemea
7、ningandimpliedmeaning.Andtheyaredifferentliterally,thatistosay,theyarethespecificreflectionofculturaldifferences.Differentcountryhasdifferentcondition,history,religiousbeliefandcustomandsoon.TheEnglishproverbandC