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1、TranslationofEnglishProverbsfromaCulturalPerspective1.IntroductionHowtotranslatetheEnglishproverbsefficiently?Manytranslatorsareharassedbythisissuethroughout,especiallytheEnglishlearners.Themajorityofscholarsdiscussitintheaspectsofetymology,contrastsbetweenEnglishandChi
2、nese,rhetoric,andthetransfertheoryandsoon.Theseresearcheshaveimportantimplementalandinstructivesignificanceswithregardtoraisethetranslationlevel.Fromtheabove,itisnotdifficulttoseethattheytouchupontheculturalinterferencealittle.Becauseofthecloserelationshipbetweenlanguag
3、eandcultureandtheeffectsbroughtbymotherlanguage,ChinesestudentscombineChinesetraditionalthinkinghabits,valuesandsoonunavoidablyintotheproverbstranslation.Therefore,theinferencestakeshapeandthetranslatedworksChinglish.Thiswriterholdsthatculturalbarrieristhekeyofaffecting
4、efficientproverbstranslationbecauselanguageandculturearewellblendedasmilkandwater.Inordertolearnalanguage,onemuststudytheculturethelanguagereflectsandknowthedifferencesbetweenthenationalcultureandtheforeignones.Andthemanifestationshowedinlanguage.(刘华,2003:9)Thispaperwil
5、lanalyzeitfromtheEnglishproverbs’definition,source,featuresandfunctionsanddiscussthetranslationofEnglishproverbsfromaculturalperspective.What’smore,itpointsouttheimportanceofdealingwiththeculturaldifferencesandconnotations.2.TheEnglishProverbs2.1TheDefinitionofProverbsA
6、ccordingtothedefinitionofTheModernChineseDictionary,proverbsarethefixedsentencesthatarespreadamongpeopleandreflecttheprofoundmeaningsbysimpleandpopularexpressions.AndMaGuofansayssomethingaboutthedifferencesbetweenproverbsandidiomsinIdiomsasfollows:⑴Idiomsaremainlywritte
7、n,whileproverbsaremainlyoral.⑵Thestructuresofidiomsareeasiertobecomesetthanthethoseofproverbs.⑶Idiomsareusedaswordsinthepracticalspeech,whilethemajorityofproverbsareindependentsentencesorbecomeindependentofsentences.⑷Idiomsusuallyexpressgeneralideas,whileproverbsmainlyg
8、ivejudgmentsandinference.(陈文伯,2004：2)DengYanchangandLiuRunqing’sLanguageAndCulturesays:“Proverbsare9shortsayin
