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1、OnCulturalDifferencesinEnglishandChineseProverbsandTranslationStrategyAbstractHavinglefttheirdeepanduniquestampsonthelanguage,proverbscanbestexpressthehistoricalprocess,culturaltraditionandcustomsofthepeople.Thepresentarticle,adoptingacontrastiveapproach,attemptstoputforwar
2、dthedistinctivecharacteristicsofbothEnglishandChineseproverbs,namely,metaphoricallanguageintegratemeaning,fixedcollocationandeuphonioussound.Ittriestomakeananalysisoftheirculturaldiscrepanciesintermsofgeography,customandreligiousbelief.Andthenitdrawsconclusionsofspecificstr
3、ategytodealwithculturalsimilaritiesandculturaldifferencesintranslation.Keywords:EnglishandChineseproverbs;characteristics;culturaldifferences;translationstrategyIntroductionAsweknow,intheEnglishandChineselanguageproverbsarewidelyused.Theyarepassedfromgenerationtogenerationw
4、ithoutchanging,evensomeproverbsaregrammaticallywrong.InbothEnglishandChineseproverbsareveryrich-full.Howtheseproverbsproduced?Thisisthefirstproblemwhichisdiscussedinthispaper.Proverbsareproductofpeople’ssocialpractices.Sonomatterinwhichlanguage,proverbshavesomecommoncharact
5、eristics,suchasmetaphoricallanguage,integratemeaning,fixedcollocationeuphonioussoundandsoon.Proverbsareessentiallynationalincharacter,thatistosay,theircomponentsaremostlynativeelements.EnglishandChineseproverbspossestheirownnationalculture.Manypeoplecannotproperlyunderstand
6、themeaningofaphraseorsentencewithoutanewworkinitjustbecausetheyknowlittleaboutculturaldifferencebetweenEnglishandChineseproverbs.TheEnglish-speakingandChinese-speakingpeoplepossedifferentcultures.Theyliveindifferentgeographyenvironment,havedifferentcustomsandholddifferentre
7、ligiousbelieves.Thoseelementsmakethetranslationahardworktosolvetheproblem;thispaperwillgivesomeapproachestotranslatingtheEnglishandChineseproverbs.Theyareliteraltranslation,freetranslationandequivalentwithborrowing.Eachapproachhasitsownadvantagesanddisadvantages,sothetransl
8、atorneedstotaketheproverbs’culturalbackgroundintoconsiderationtochoosethebestappro
