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1、第15页ComparativeStudyandTranslationStrategiesofEnglishandChineseEuphemismsIntroductionInEnglishandChineselanguages,theuseofeuphemismsexistedallthetime.TheemergenceofEnglisheuphemismcouldtracebacktotheNormanConquestin1066.AtthattimepeopleusedeuphemismsbecauseNormanandlocaluppercla
2、ssthoughtthatAngle-Saxon’snativelanguagewerevulgar.TheyusedmanyelegantLatinlanguageandFrenchlanguage.GraduallythesewordsweremeltedintoEnglishlanguageandbecametheearliesteuphemisms.InChinesehistory,Chinesepeopleusedeuphemismfrom“TheBookofSongs”atfirst.EnglishandChineseeuphemismse
3、xperiencedchangesinthousandsofyearsandwereusedwidelyineveryfieldinsociallife.Euphemisms,throughtheages,acrossculturesandpervasiveexistenceatdifferentlevelsoflanguage,indicatethattheeuphemisticuseoflanguageisnotonlyconfinedtothelexicalorgrammaticallevel,butalsoisaculturalphenomen
4、oninlanguagecommunication.ThispaperfocusesonthedifferencesbetweenEnglishandChineseeuphemismsbycomparativelyanalyzingtheirlinguisticandculturalcharacteristicsandthenputsforwardtheirtranslationmethods.I.Euphemism1.1DefinitionofEuphemismEuphemismdatesbacktoLatin.Theprefix“eu-”means
5、“good”,thestem“pheme”means“speech”,soeuphemismmeans“goodspeech”toavoidspeakinginimproperway.Webster’sCollegiateDictionarygiveseuphemismadefinitionas:“Substitutionofanagreeableorinoffensiveexpressionforonethatmayoffendorsuggestunpleasant.”(MerriamWebsterIncorporated,1995:400)InOx
6、fordEnglish-ChineseDictionary,itisdefinedas“amildorvagueexpressionsubstitutedforonethoughttobetooharshordirect.”(DellaThompson,2005:692)InChina,researchintoitcanbedatedbacktotheSpring-Autumnperiod.ThemeaningofChineseeuphemismissimilartothewesternbutthescopeofChineseeuphemismiswi
7、der,Englisheuphemismisthesameto“婉曲”inChinese,onthewhole,their第15页definitionsarealmostequalandtheyalldon’texpresstheirmindsdirectlyforallkindsofmotivations.1.2CharacteristicsofEuphemismItisnecessarytoknoweuphemisticcharacteristicsforcomparingthedifferencesbetweenEnglishandChinese
8、euphemismsbetter.Asanimportantlinguisticandcult
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