Influence of Cultural Differences on Chinese and English Idioms and Their Translation

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1、文化差异对英汉习语及其翻译的影响InfluenceofCulturalDifferencesonChineseandEnglishIdiomsandTheirTranslationContentsAbstract………………………………………………………………….1Keywords………………………………………………………………….1I.Introduction…………………………………………………………...2II.CulturalDifferencesReflectedinEnglishandChineseIdioms..

2、....21.Differencesinnaturalenvironments.....................................................32.Differencesincustom..........................................................................43.Differencesinreligion…………………………………………………54.Differencesinhistoricalallusions

3、…………………………………......75.Differencesinthinking.........................................................................8III.TheWaytoTranslatetheChineseandEnglishIdioms………….81.Literaltranslation…………………………………………………...82.Freetranslation………………………………………………………..93.Acombinati

4、onofthetwomethods……………………………………...94.Substitution………………………………………………….....10IV.Conclusion………………………………………………………….11References…………………………………………………...................11InfluenceofCulturalDifferencesonChineseandEnglishIdiomsandTheirTranslationAbstract:Idiomsarethecoreandt

5、heessenceofalanguage.Theyareheavily-loadedwithculturalinformation.Idiomsarewidelyusedindailycommunications,newspapers,magazinesandmassmediabecauseoftheircharacteristicsofbeingshort,humorousandfullofphilosophicmeanings.Butbecauseoftheculturaldifferences,suchassurroun

6、dings,habits,religion,history,customandthoughtpattern,EnglishandChineseidiomsarequitedifferent,culturaldifferencesconstitutethemaindifficultyinthetranslationofidioms.ThispaperanalyzesinfluenceofculturaldifferencesonEnglishandChineseidiomsandindicatesthatliteraltrans

7、lation,substitution,freetranslationaremainlyappliedinthetranslationofidiomsofthetwolanguagesinordertoconveyasmuchtheinformationoftheoriginalaspossible. Keywords:culturaldifferences；EnglishandChineseidioms；waysoftranslatingtheidioms摘要:习语是语言的结晶，是文化的载体。习语具有简洁,机智幽默以及寓意深

8、刻等特点，因此广泛地用于日常交际，报纸，杂志和大众媒体中。但是由于人们不同的生活环境，宗教信仰，历史背景，风俗习惯以及思维方式，英汉习语有很大的差异，而文化差异成为翻译习语的主要障碍。本文将分析文化差异对英汉习语的影响，以及在习语翻译中，为更好的翻译习语使之不失原意，而采用的