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1、毕业论文（设计）TranslationContextoftheAdaptationTheoryonEuphemismTranslation1.IntroductionEverysociety,everyspeechcommunityandeverysocialclasshastheireuphemismofvariouskinds.Asakindoflanguage,itiswidelyusedinhumancommunication.Soitisnotsurprisingthatmanyfamousliteraryworkscontainalotofeuphemism
2、s.Sinceeuphemismhasbeenplayinganimportantroleinhumanrelationandcross-culturalrelation,theissueofeuphemismtranslationisbecomingmoreandmoreimportant.Sofar,therehavebeensomeachievementsabouteuphemismtranslationtheoriesandtranslatingtechniquesintheacademiccircles.Forinstance,Eugene.A.Nida,af
3、amousAmericantranslationtheorist,declared“DynamicEquivalentprinciple”;Nord,Christianedeclared“Purpose-orientedTranslationPrinciple”;Gricealsomentioned“CooperativePrinciple”andLeechdeclared“PolitenessPrincipleinTranslation”.Apartfromtheresearchoftheserelatedtheories,therearesomeeuphemismt
4、ranslatingtechniquesemergingaccordinglyinrecentyears.Asusual,LiteralTranslation,FreeTranslation,LendingTranslationandFlexibleTranslationarefourcommontranslatingtechniques.NowSpanishtranslatorJavierFrancoAixela’stheoryaboutculture-specificitemsandlevelsofequivalencehavebeenpresenttothepub
5、lic;alsothereisanewtranslatingtechniqueputforthbyJefVerschueren,whichiscalledthetheoryofadaptation,nowwidelyacceptedbythepublic.24毕业论文（设计）AsJefVerschueren’stranslatingtheoryisthoughtfulandflexible,itmayhaveapromisingfutureintranslatingfield.Withregardtopresentresearchoftranslatingtheorie
6、sandtechniques,itisfarfromenoughineuphemismtranslating.Therefore,itispossibletofindabettereuphemismtranslatingtechniqueinthelightofVerschueren’sadaptationtheory.1.Generalintroductionabouteuphemism2.1DefinitionandfunctionofeuphemismEuphemism,onerhetoricterminEnglish,is“euphemismos”inancie
7、ntwesternrhetoric.ThewordeuphemismcomesfromtheGreekeu(good)andpheme(speechorsaying),meaningliterally“tospeakwithgoodwordsorinapleasantmanner”.Itisusuallyusedtopreservedecencywhenreferringtounpleasantthings(Vickers,1988:407).IncurrentEnglishdictionaries,euphemismsaredefine
