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1、OnEnglish-ChineseCulturalDifferencesandTranslationStrategiesI．IntroductionAftertheendoftheColdWar,theworldsituationhaschangedgreatly.Economicglobalization,technologicalinformationandculturediversityareincreasingrapidly.Theworldislikeavillage.Thecountriesintheworldconnectwith,dependonandcoo
2、peratewitheachotherclosely.Socialdevelopmentwillcombinethewholeworldtogethermoreclosely.Bothdevelopedanddevelopingcountriesandeventheleastdevelopedcountriescannotputthemselvesoutofthehistoricaltrend.Theymusttrytheirbesttousetheiradvantagestoensuretheirowndevelopment.Economicglobalizationmu
3、stpromoteglobalculturalexchange.Therearesomanykindsoflanguagesintheworld.Anditisoftenveryhardforpeopleinonecountrytounderstandthelanguageusedbypeopleinanothercountry.Languageisthecarrierofcultureandpartoftheculture.Becauselanguagescanreflectanation’sculture,languagesymbolsprovidesarichexpr
4、essionmeansforanation.Languagehasbeenkeepingsynchronousdevelopmentwithculturethroughoutthewholeprocessofhumanculturescomingintobeingandtheirsubsequentdevelopment.“Somescientistsconsideritthekeystoneofculture.Withoutlanguage,theymaintain,culturewouldbeimpossible.”(邓炎昌,刘润清31).Ontheotherhand,
5、“Languageistheprimarymeansbywhichaculturetransmitsitsbeliefs,valuesandameansofthinking”(戴炜栋158).“Languageisapartofculture.Differencesonthelanguageusagewillexposefeaturesofthesocialcultureintermsofthesubstances,customsandotheractivities”(Lyons30).Edward,Taylor,Britishculturalanthropologisti
6、nonebookofprimitiveculture(1871),regardedcultureasaconcepttoproposeforthefirsttime,anddescribeditas:“Eachcomplicatedculture,includesknowledge,belief,art,moral,lawandcustomasabilityandhabitinthesociety”.Itisobviousthatcoverageofculturephenomenonofanationalityisapartofculture.Culturaldiffere
7、ncebetweenEnglish16andChineseidiomscanbeshowninthefollowingseveralaspects.Butindifferentfields,thedegreesoftranslationdifficultiesaredifferent.Forexample,poetrycanalmostnotbetranslatedaccurately,becauseofeithertheformorthephonologyofthepoetryplaysaveryimportan
