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1、OnCulturalFactorsinTranslationAbstract:Asonemeansofcommunication,translationisnotonlyaprocessofbilingualexchange,butalsoaprocessofculturaltransplantation.Inculturaltransplantation,culturalfactorsinthesourceandtargetlanguagemanifestthemselvesintheformsofcult
2、uraloverlaps,culturalblanksandculturalconflicts.Sincecultureischieflydecipheredbylanguage,reflectionsofculturebylanguageatthelexicologicallevelarelexicalcorrespondences,lexicalblanksandlexicalconflicts.Severalpossibletranslationstrategiesareprovidedtodealwi
3、ththem.Keywords:communicationculturaltransplantationtranslationI.IntroductionManystudentsassumethattheonlyprerequisitefortranslationisabilingualdictionary,anexhaustiveencyclopedia.Basedonthisknowledge,whentranslating,theyoftentrytomatcheverywordandgrammarto
4、gether,sotheirtranslatedpiecesarequiteawful.Translation,infact,seenfromtheperspectiveofsociolinguistics,isnotonlyabilingualactivity,butalsoabiculturalone.Therefore,“interculturalcommunication”issometimesadoptedtosubstitutetheterminologicalterm“translation”.
5、Asalinguisticbehavior,translationcontainsbothcultural-specificandcultural-universalcomponents,andthecultural-specificityandculturalmeaning,manyagooddealfromoneculturalcommunitytothenext.Asweknow,ChineseandEnglisharedifferentlanguagesystems,andthetwo-languag
6、e-speakingpeopleenjoydifferentcultures.Thecultural-specificityreallyconstitutesaseriousproblemfortheChinesestudents,wholearnEnglishastheirfirstforeignlanguage,toputChineseintoEnglishorviceversa.Asaresult,itisofgreatsignificancetostudycultureandlookforsomepo
7、ssiblewaysindealingwiththeculturalproblemsintranslation.Indoingsocanstudentsbefacilitatedtodeveloptheirculturalsensitivityintranslation.Generallyspeaking,duringtheprocessofculturalcommunication,thesourcecultureandthetargetculturemanifestthemselvesintheforms
8、ofculturaloverlaps,culturalblanksandculturalconflicts.Sincecultureischieflyencodedandconveyedbylanguagesystem,reflectionofculturebylanguageatthelexicallevelisperceptibleintheformsoflexicalcorrespondenc