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1、BriefAnalysisoftheCharacteristicandStyleofEnglishSlangsbyClass:英语093StudentNumber:SchoolofForeignLanguagesChangzhouUniversityJune2012IntroductionWithanincreasingdevelopmentofChina’sreformandeconomy,theopportunitiesforChinatogetintouchwithothercountri
2、esarebecomingmoreandmore.Indailylife,frombooksandmagazinesoronTV,youcouldhearorseetheuseofEnglishslangshereandthere.Slangisasortofpopularcolloquialword,someisvulgar,andsomeisdialectal.SlangofthesamenatureexistsinbothEnglishandChinese.Ingeneral,slangc
3、anbedividedintoeuphemism,swearwordandvulgarlanguage.ThispaperisinthesenseofgeneralandequivalentaspectstoanalyzethecharacteristicsandtranslationtechniquesofEnglishslang.1.ThecharacteristicsofEnglishslangTheslangitselfhassomeuniversalityandtheequivalen
4、tcharacteristics,whichperplexesthetranslationofEnglishslang.1.1UniversalityEnglishslangisoftenheardorusedinpeople’slives.Itisakindofdialectwhichthemostfamiliartopeople.Therefore,tosomeextent,hasacertainuniversalityofEnglishslang.1.1.1LimitationTheuse
5、ofslangtobelimitedbyacertaintime,certainoccasions,andthelanguageenvironmentwillbedecidedbypeopleandtime,coupledwithitsusewaswithacertaindegreeofexclusion,so,insomecases,notallpeoplecanuseuniformslang.Forexample,somewordsexpressedinsultingcalls,meanmo
6、ckeryorrudelanguageareoftenusedamongyounggroup,using“airhead”toexpress“idiot,dumbbell”,describingsuchpersonhasanemptyhead.Maybeitonlyhasair.1.1.2CultureSlanghasastrongculturebreath,whatslangreflectisboundtotheculturalvaluesofheritageofEnglish-speakin
7、gcountries.Duringtheprocessoftranslation,cross-culturalcommunicationisstillabigobstacle.Wecannotavoidculturalcollision,culturalconflictandcommunicationerrorsometime.Andbecauseoftheculturalvacuum,someslangcannotbetranslatedintocorrespondingtargetlangu
8、ageinChinese.ItalsomakestheEnglish-Chinesetranslationofslanghastobecomethemeaningofinterpretationandexplanation.Forinstance,“aouchpotato”whichcorrespondstothe"lyingonachairpotato"inChinese.But,thiskindoftranslationdoesn’tmakesenseatall,itcanonlyexpla