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he relationship between translation and culture， Bassnett think the relation between culture and translation is the relation between the body and heart.， culture is the body， language is the heart. As surgeons do surgery can't ignore the body surrounding tissue， the translator can not ignore the factors of culture when they translate some material. Hatmi and Mason believe that translation is a dynamic communicative process， the translator should not only understand two languages themselves，they should have two more cultural horizons， the translator should be acted as the role of the coordinator (mediator) between the original author and the reader .

Anyhow， the translators emphasize the cultural factors of translation scholars stressed. The translator should be familiar with two cultures， introduce the primitive cultural factors in the translation activity. Whether translators' understanding of the original is correctly or not， largely depends on his understanding of the culture， the success of translation， is mainly related to culture .

PART TWO THE FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE CULTURE  第二部分  影响文化的因素

2.1 Religion

Everyone knows， Bible plays the role of the source in western’s life. Some statistic shows most Americans still have faith in the church. The British law protects religious freedom. Everyone has the freedom to believe any church， or not to believe any religion at all. There is no interference from the state or the community.

Most of the world’s religions have followers in Britain， but the majority of the British people believe Christianity. The first Christian church was established at Canterbury in 597. While the Chinese are under the influence of Confucian School in great extent. Though the Buddhism， which spreads very well in China， is till a polytheism. This is different from westerners’ religious faith.

In China， people have faith in the Buddhism and Taoism， so there phrase arises， such as “YuDi” “FoZu” and so on. While the westerners have faith in Christian， so there arises the word “God”. In Chinese， “谋事在人，成事在天”， In English there are two different versions， (1) “man propose， heaven disposes” or “man dropose ， god disposes”. Their difference lies in the different translations of the word “天”。“天”has the strong color of Buddhism and Taoism. While the word of “God” has the oblivious color of Christian. The latter translation version is easy to understand and accept for the westerners， but can not convey the essence of connotation of it in China. The religion has great influence on English， it expresses in such phrases as “It is in God’s hand”(听天由命)， etc.

When translation， it is very necessary for us to master the basic knowledge of religion. We can take the example of “临时抱佛脚”. If we translated it into “to embrace Buddha’s feet in one’s hour of need”. It is very eccentric for the westerner. Why we need to embrace the Buddha’s feet sometimes? What is the use of this strange act? If we can deal it a little， it is another meaning for the westerner. We can translate it into “to embrace Buddha’s feet in one’s hour of need ----seek help at the last moment”. So the westerners always say “God” “Holy” “Goddess” etc. While we Chinese choose to take the Heaven as our faith. This truly gives us another example of the different religious belief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。