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1、MisinterpretingWordsLiterallyinEnglishandChineseTranslationTheso-called“misinterpretingwordstooliterally”,thatisdonotunderstandthecorrectmeaningofaword,justliterallytothelaws.Asaresult,itmakesthewronginterpretation.IntheEnglishtranslationofwords,ifyoudonotunder
2、standthecorrectmeaningofaword,youwouldliterallyattachedtoimproperinference,whichmakesthatmistakeduringthetranslation.Thestyleof“misinterpretingwordsliterallyinEnglishandChinesetranslation”isacommonwordtranslationphenomenonamongstudents.Thiscausesstudentstoprodu
3、ceEnglishtranslationsofthewordstooliterallycausesarediverse,includingTheNegativefactors,somestudentsdonotunderstandthedifferencebetweenChineseandBritishculturalfactors.ButthebigfactoristheexpressionofstudentviewsontheEnglishvocabularyexlittleunderstood.Colorado
4、linguistoncesaid:"Ifthemothertongueintheformofalanguageisonlyonecomponent.Andthereareseveralformsofthetargetlanguage,thenthiscomponentisnoteasytolearn."AnimportantfeatureofEnglishwordspolysemy,Suchastheword“make”,thestudentshaveonlythemainChineselanguage:Itmean
5、sthecorresponding"casebemade"or"do",buttheydonotunderstanditandproducedifferentwordswithdifferentmeanings.Pleaselookatthesefollowingsentences:1、Motherhelpsusmakethebedsintheevening.2、Ican’tmakeoutthemeaningofthepassage.Inthefirstsentence,theword“make”meansarran
6、gethebedup,andinthesecondsentence,itmeansunderstand.Thesekindsofexamplesaretoomuch.Allinall,fiveareasarebroadlysummarizedasfollows:First,thegrammaticalstructuretounderstandhimself:Improperunderstandingofthetranslatoronthegrammaticalstructure,suchasdistinguishpa
7、rtsofspeech,torefertorelationshipsandpatterns,etc.,willbethedirectresultofmisinterpretation.Second,thesemanticunderstandingofhimself:PolysemyinEnglishvocabularyisverymuchthecase,suchas“knowledgeisstillsecond”itwillcausemisunderstanding.Groundinvestigationandfin
8、ethedictionary(includingtheuseoforalEnglishofEnglish-Englishdictionary)toavoid;theso-calledinvestigationisamulti-groundsearchseveraldictionaries,searchtheso-calledthinaccess