《Unit Five Diction in Translation》.pptVIP

Unit Five  Diction in Translation （译文选词） 1.Words don’t have meaning. Words don’t have meaning. People give meaning to them. As William Shakespeare wrote in his Romeo and Juliet, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Both in the English language and the Chinese language, a word may have many different meanings and parts of speech.  For instance, according to A New English- Chinese Dictionary, the word go has more than 149 meanings and more than 50 collocations as well as 6 parts of speech. such as: A.去,走， B.?归，属 C.诉讼 D.运转 E.通,