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ABSTRACT Idioms, as the crystallization of people’s labor, contain abundant cultural connotation. The idioms that this thesis discusses are generalized, including proverbs, two-part allegorical sayings, literary quotations and so on. Some of the idioms are implicit and humorous, and others are serious and graceful. All of the idioms are not only concise and comprehensive, but also vivid and full of wit and humor, making people a comfortable experience. Due to the disparity of geography, life style and customs, religious faith, history, etc, the Chinese and English idioms have their own cultural characteristics. The ultimate aim of translation, in reality, is to promote communication and mutual understandings among different cultures. Therefore, more significance should be attached to the culture in the process of translation. The difficulties caused by the cultural persity in the translation of Chinese and English idioms include the unequivalence in idioms, misinterpreting the meaning of idioms, conceptual problems and idiomatic usage. This thesis discusses some strategies related to the translation of Chinese and English idioms and offers six idioms’ translation methods. Domestication is a common method in the translation of Chinese and English idioms, however, domesticating strategy has the disadvantage of cultural loss because it always replaces the source language images with the target cultural ones or just simply gives them up. In contrast, foreignizing strategy keeps the original cultural images of the text and thus expresses better to the TL readers the original culture. Therefore, foreignization should be adopted on the condition of not affecting expressiveness. In order not to twist the original cultural flavor, domestication should be employed. In addition, according to some concrete cases, literal translation, free translation, amplification and omission can be chosen. This thesis will firstly explores the cultural persity reflected by Chinese and English idioms, then analyzes difficulties caused by the cultural persity in the translation of Chinese and English idioms, and on the basis of which, demonstrates the specific principle and methods of the translation of Chinese and English idioms in details.46184
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Keywords: idioms; cultural differences; strategies
摘要作为人类劳动的结晶，习语包含着丰富的文化内涵。本篇论文讨论的习语范畴是宽泛的，包括谚语，歇后语以及典故等等。众多习语中，有的含蓄幽默，有的则严肃优雅。无论哪种习语，都言简意赅，而且生动形象，富有智慧。无论其结构还是音韵，都带给人一种舒心惬意之感。由于地理环境，生活习俗，宗教信仰以及历史背景等因素的巨大差异，英汉习语带有不同的民族特色以及文化信息，与其自己的文化有着密切的关系。事实上，翻译是为了不同文化之间可以拥有更好的理解。因此，在英汉习语翻译的过程中，应该格外注重对其文化心理的剖析与解读。由于文化差异而带来的英汉习语翻译难点是多方面的，包括习语的不对等性，曲解习语的意义，概念性问题以及一些习惯用法。基于以上英汉习语翻译的种种难点，本文尽可能提供了切实可行的翻译原则以及翻译方法。归化在英汉习语的翻译中是一种常见的方法，但由于在翻译的过程中，归化经常性地用目标文化中的意象来取代原文本所在文化中熟悉的意象，或直接舍弃掉原文本意象，这就不可避免地会造成文化缺失的现象，因此，归化有其固有的缺点。然而，英汉习语翻译中的异化方法会最大可能地保留原文化的种种意象，因而对目标语读者来说会更容易接受，进而更容易理解。所以在不影响表达的前提下，我们应采取异化的翻译方法。如果考虑到不破坏原文化的文化意象，以求表达原汁原，则归化的翻译方法更可取。另外，矛盾具有特殊性，具体问题具体分析，根据不同的翻译文本，我们还可酌情采用直译，意译，增译以及省略的翻译方法。本篇论文会首先研究英汉习语中体现的文化差异，然后分析英汉习语翻译中文化差异造成的诸多难点，基于以上分析的诸多难点，详细陈述英汉习语翻译的具体原则及方法。