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Five thousands years of historical literature of China possess dense natural character and special literature feature . The historical stories in the article can be considered as invaluable treasure in natural literature . In all ages , people of a lot of knowledge are all over the word , the historical stories must relate to them to some degree . such as "show off one's proficiency with the axe before Lu Ban the Master Callzenter . Everyone knows what Lu Ban did ." Showing off one's proficiency with the axe before Lu Ban the Master Callzenter is showing one's bad abilities . But few of westerners can understand the meaning . Besides , these allusions of real meaning , such as "Bite the hand that feeds you" etc. these stories can't also be grasped by westerners . As a result , when we translate these allusions of history , we must translate really implicit the sense meaning among the allusions , otherwise your translation fails .

2.3 Different environment

The different living environment in different countries makes the same thing may have different opinions , such as something in a kind of language culture will have abundent cultural connotation , it will give humans good imagery . However , in another language culture may seems very poor , has no significance , so the differences arising thereform . Such as cows is the symbol of industry in Chinese eyes , because the sense that the cow gives humans is in the fields of hard-working everyday , and have not any complaints . People often say such words when at work "We will have the spirit like the cows ." Undoubtely, in European countries, they must not understand it. China is a large agriculturl nation, in antiquiy, the farming is accomplished by cows, so people praise its, but they may not feel how importance of cattle for humans.
Different geographical enviroment also can cause culture differences. "East wind"warm it is positive in the Han people consciousness. But the British people disagree, owing to different geography places, "east wind" in British people mind it means cold. If we have meet this condition , should pay more attention to the translation. The seafaring of England is very famous in the histoyu, so its culture cn not without the sea, but the Chinese lived in mainland , naturally can not without land. "Spend money like water ,"in English metaphor someone waste of money, just like water ,but Chinese explanation is miserly. One use water describe, another is use soil. Consequently, the dfferent geographical enviroment bring them when they explained one thing will use differentthings to describe. Only really understand these cultures back of the languages, we will be teanslate more precise.

2.4 Different religious beliefs

China is a belief Buddhism naition.Buddhism in China has for more than one thousand years hisory, people believe that the Buddhism hold everything.We can often see, when people meet any trouble or family have an ills, they will go to the temple promose again. Visible, the image of Buddha are deeply in the minds of the Chinese people. Don not usually like cram as incense , in western eyes idioms, they might not understand, therefore