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in China and we don’t have the ready-made words at hand. And all these arise problems while we do translations. Suppose we read from a book that ‘这个人身高五英尺六英寸’(‘This man is five feet six inches tall.’), we Chinese will can’t help wondering what exact the height he is. And for the first time we learn that ‘它有16盎斯重’(‘It weights 16 ounces.), in fact we don’t know it really weights 28.35 grams. To solve these problems, the most popular means the translators adopt is to add a footnote saying ‘5 feet 6 inches is equal to 1.68 meters.’, or ’16 ounces is equal to 28.5 grams.’. In most cases this adoption will achieve the original faithfulness, but under certain circumstances such a footnote will not work and we should employ a popular and idiomatic way of expression. For example, the popular Chinese saying of ‘at sixes and sevens’ is ‘七零八落’ or ‘七颠八倒’. And the idiomatic English saying of ‘半斤八两’ is ‘tweed ledum and tweed ledee’ or ‘much of a muchness’. On the other hand, ‘faithful to the original’ means that a translator should not only translate out all the original content, but also pass to the readers the ‘feeling-tone’ of the original lines. ‘feeling-tone’ which is originated from the word ‘Gefuhlston’ in linguistics, simply means the meaning between the words. Language is used not just to express one’s idea, what more important is, to convey one’s feelings, or even to move the readers, to persuade the readers into thinking what the author is thinking about. Poets are good at exert the influence of language, to give readers a kind of hint, a kind of impulse. When we read the two lines ‘山重水复疑无路，柳暗花明又一村’, we are influenced by the magic of language, and we can’t help imagining as if, we ourselves were just on the scene. To successfully convey the ‘feeling-tone’ of the original, a translator should pay enough attention to the following two aspects.

First, figures of speech.

第一，修辞格

Words used in their original meanings are used literally, while words used in extended meanings for the purpose of making comparisons or calling up pictures in the reader’s mind are used figuratively. Only does a translator convey the extended meaning to the readers can we say that he is faithful to the original. There are various kinds of figures of speech – metonymy, metaphor, simile, personification, irony, alliteration, etc.. But in translation, the most popular figures of speech a translator would come across are metonymy and metaphor. Metaphor is the use of a word which originally denotes one thing to refer to another with a similar quality, and it is used to make the article more vivid. In the sentences like ‘he is the soul of the team’, ‘irrigation is the life blood of agriculture’, ‘soul’ and ‘lifeblood’ are used metaphorically. Sometimes these metaphors can be translated literally. For example: ‘He ran his administration as a one-man show, and loved to exercise authority.’ Here, ‘one-man show’ can be translated literally as ‘独脚戏’. In the sentence ‘Arthur Krock reported that “he was the boss, the dynamo, the work”.’, ‘the boss, the dynamo, the works’ can also be translated literally as ‘是老板，是发电机，是钟表的发条’. Sometimes, a metaphor in English corresponds to another metaphor in Chinese. Take this sentence for example ‘Once she wondered whether her outspokenness might be a liability to Franklin.’, here the metaphor ‘liability’ corresponds to the metaphor ‘包袱’ in Chinese. And we can see from the 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。