On the Effects on Translation of the Difference between Chinese and Western Patterns of Thinking10

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1、OntheEffectsonTranslationoftheDifferencebetweenChineseandWesternPatternsofThinkingI.Introduction“Sofarasthedefinitionoftranslationisconcerned,itiseasyforustocopyonefromdictionary;translationisarenderingfromonelanguageintoanother,butthatseemstobetoosimple.”(Hornby65)Actually,transl

2、ationconcernswithnotonlytherenderingbetweentheoriginalandtargetlanguages,butalsothecommunicationbetweenthetwocultures.Andthemostdifficultthingintranslatingisjustthetranslatingofthetwocultures.notesthatthemostessentialdifferencebetweenEasternandWesternculturesliesinthedifferent“pat

3、ternsofthought”.Languageisthereflectionofthethought.andthoughtcontrolslanguage.Solanguageexpressionsresultfromtherelationbetweenlanguageandthought.Theprocessoftranslatingisnotonlythetransferoflanguageformsbutalsothetransferofthought.Makingthetransferofthoughtpatternswithpurposeint

4、hecourseoftranslationwehavetohavetheknowledgeof“thedifferencesofthepatternsofthought”iscontributivetothenaturalandidiomatictranslationPorterandSamovarpointoutthatthoughtistheprocesswhichusestheconceptions,judgmentandreasoningtoreflecttheobjectiveworld.Itisprovedbypsychologiststhat

5、thoughtcanprocessallkindsofinformationwhichentersthehumanbrainandwhatwethinkcanreflectthematerialessencesandsolvetheproblems.Forpatternofthought,therehavebeenmanyotherexpressionstodenotethesamemeaning:“modeofthinking”,“waysofthinking”,“thinkingstyle”.“Theformofreasoningprevalentin

6、asocietymaybecalledthepatternofthoughtinthatsociety,whichhasbeenanaspectofculturethatinfluencessocialperception.”(Pribram121)KarlProgramnotesthatmutualunderstandingandpeacefulrelationsamongthepeoplesoftheearthhavebeenimpedednotonlybythemultiplicityoflanguages,buttoanevengreaterdeg

7、reebydifferencesinpatternsofthought—thatis,bydifferencesinthemethodsadoptedfordefiningthesourcesofknowledge,andfororganizingcoherentthinking.Themoststrikingdifferencesamongphilosophicaldoctrinesareattributabletodeep-seated17divergences…themethodsofformingfundamentalconceptsandofde

8、finingthefunctionsofReason—thatis