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1、HowtotranslateChineseandEnglishidiomscontainingfiguresappropriately1.IntroductionItiswellrecognizedthatlanguageandcultureareinseparable.Ontheonehand,languageplaysaveryimportantroleinreflectingandexpressingculture.Alanguageisanessentialpartofthecultureofapeoplean
2、dthroughittheotherpartsofcultureareexpressed.Sotospeak,withoutlanguagetherewouldbenoculturedescendingfromancienttimes.Ontheotherhand,sincecultureisdefinedsuccinctlyas“thetotalityofbeliefsandpracticesofasociety”EugeneA.Nida,LanguageandCulture-ContextsinTranslatin
3、g(Shanghai:ShanghaiForeignLanguageEducationPress,2001),78.,languageisstronglyinfluencedandshapedbyculture.Changesincultureoftengiverisetonewcharacteristicsoflanguage.正文行文请用TimesNewRoman字体,小四号字，1.5倍行距，整个论文正文不少于6000个英文单词。BothEnglishandChinesearethelanguagesinthewo
4、rldenjoyingthelongesthistory.Duringthelong-termdevelopment,theyhaveaccumulatedalargenumberofidioms,includingtheidiomscontainingfigures,whichrefertotheidiomscontainingcardinalnumbersandordinalnumbers.Asanindispensablepartofidioms,ChineseandEnglishidiomscontaining
5、figuresarecloselyrelatedtotheirowncultures,conveyingdifferentculturalfeaturesandmessagesoftheirownnations.Usually,idiomscontainingfiguresreflecttheirculturalbackgroundknowledgewithfigureconnotations.Asweallknow,figuresaretypicaloftheculturallyloadedwords.Notonly
6、dotheybelongtothedigitalrealm,theyarealsousedinidiomsandphraseswithculturalconnotations.TheChineseandEnglishpeoplesmayhavethesameorsimilarconceptsforfigures,butbecauseoftheirculturaldiversities,theyusefiguresindifferentwayswithconnotativemeanings.Inthe21stcentur
7、y,withtherapiddevelopmentofeconomicglobalization,culturalcommunicationandcooperationbetweennationsbecomemorefrequent,theresearchfieldofChineseandEnglishidiomscorrespondinglypresentsanewtendency.Theidiomscontainingfigures,asacrucialpartofidioms,havebecomethe-34-m
8、ainobjectforChineseandothernations’scholarstostudyearnestly.However,sincetheidiomscontainingfiguresarecharacterizedbytheirconciseexpressions,richandvividmeanings,anda
