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Influence of Cultural Differences on Chinese Allusion Translation

Introduction

ALLUSIONS ARE GEMS of the language. As we all know, Chinese has a large number of unique allusions; in form, they are brief while profound in meaning. All these allusions contain rich cultural implications. Here, as the essence of language, it carries rich cultural information, fully influenced by the cultural differences between English and Chinese. If one does not know the cultural heritage of allusions fully, he or she may be puzzled by the connotation, and surely can not translate it properly and correctly, or even make mistakes. As far as their underlying cultural information is concerned, many allusions are completely or partial equivalent both in Chinese and in English but some others have nothing in common at all. Because of natural environment, history, social customs differences, carries Chinese allusions two cultures of different ethnic characteristics and cultural information. Therefore, the translation of Chinese allusions translated out of the original language to the image of allusion is not enough; we should translate out of their national characteristics and local characteristics, and fully focuses on its cultural differences. This paper explores the influence of cultural differences between Chinese and English on allusions and gives some specific and practice approaches in translation of Chinese allusions translation.

The main idea of allusion translation is to deal with the conflict between language and culture, it is not only translated the original language allusion, figurative meaning, rhetorical image, but also translated their cultural significance. Such as the allusion 'sit back and wait' is an ancient Chinese story, if translated into the stand by a stump waiting for the appearance of a hare, would be perplexing. If you adhere to the old translation methods and do not accept to have a chance and unexpected changes or trust, although the expression has its meaning, the story of cultural identity is gone, and so undesirable. If you want to deal with English translation well, you should pay more attention to the influence of cultural differences between Chinese and English on allusions and the key is the use of allusion and cultural differences in perspective.

1. Influence of Chinese and Western Cultural Difference on Chinese Allusion Translation

As we all know, different countries have different cultures. 'Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another.' (Hofstede, 1991) Difference of Chinese and western culture do exist in our daily life. The relationship between culture and translation has attracted so many translators and interpreters presented their own views on it, through their theories are different in some parts , the main ideas contained in their theories are quite similar and those different parts of their theories are mutually complementary. According to their theories, all of them had expressed at view that cultural differences have leaded many difficulties in allusion translation. Neglection of Chinese and western cultural difference in translation may lead some mistakes that will result some bad results. However, pay attention to these cultural differences wil本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。