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1、40METAPHORSOFTRANSLATIONTanZaixi,HongKongBaptistUniversity,HongKongthtan@hkhu.edu.hkAbstractThestudydescribedinthepresentariicieinvestigatesChineseandWesternmetaphorsoftranslationthathaveappearedsinceantiquityandwhichillustratethecentralroteofmetaphorsindescriptionsoftranslation.Tlieartic
2、lediscussesmorethan270ChineseandEnglishlanguagemetaphorsfrotndescriptiveaswellasdiachronicandsynchronicpointsofvieio.Itanalysesiheissuesmetaphorsgiveriseto,andoffersin-devthanalysesanddiscussionsofhowmetaphorscanprovideuswithinsightsonthewaysinwhichweseetranslation.Keywords:Chinese-Englis
3、h;metaphorsoftranslation;historyoftranslation;imagesoftranslation;Westernmetaphors;Chinesemetaphors.IntroductionFromtheverybeginningofdiscussionsonthenatureoftranslation,meta-phorshavebeenpartofthevocabularythattranslationscholarsandtranslatorsusedfordescribingtranslationwork.'Amongtheear
4、liestmetaphorsoftransla-tionintheWesterntraditionwereCicero'spronouncementinDeoptimogenereoratorum(46B.C.)thathetranslatedasaneloquentoratorandnotasaliteral"interpreter"(utinterpres),andPhilo'scomparisonofthetranslatorsoftheSep-tuagintto"prophetsandpriestsofmymysteries"inhisDevitaMosis(20
5、B.C.).TheearliestfigurativeusesoflanguageontranslationintheChinesetraditionincludedthefamousfourth-centuryBuddhisttranslatorKumarajTva'scompari-sonoftranslatingto"feedingsomeonewithmasticatedfood"{^i^^M^X.Mytranslation)andthatatranslationw^asabottleof"dilutedwine",aviewheldbyhiscontempora
6、ry,Dao-an(M^®;^^?K#tia.Mytranslation.Dao-an382).Throughoutthecenturiesdifferentformsofmetaphorshavebeenusedintranslationaldiscourse,inbothChinaandtheWest.Inthisarticle,theterm'metaphorsoftranslation'isthetermusedforabroadsemanticspectruminwhichanyformofcomparison,betheymetaphorsorsimiles,
7、areusedtode-scribetranslationoraspectsrelatedtoit.Itcomprisestheact,theprocessortheproductoftranslation,aswellastheroleoftheauthor,thetranslator,therecipi-ent,andsoon.However,despitetheirwidespreaduseintranslationaldiscourse,metaphorsoftranslationhavenotattractedmuc
