On How to Translate English Figures of Speech― Personification Hyperbole into Chinese.docVIP

On How to Translate English Figures of Speech― Personification Hyperbole into Chinese 　　【Abstract】This paper is going to use some examples to illustrate how to translate English figures of speech- personification hyperbole into Chinese. 　　【Key words】English figures of speech； personification and hyperbole； translate 　　1.The translation of personification 　　1.1 The features of this figure of speech 　　1.1.1 Personification endues the animate or inanimate things in the nature with human characters， behaviors and feelings. Apart from that， personification is always linked with human features such as human images， actions and feelings， for example： 　　“The youth were singing， laughing and playing the music instruments. The trees and flowers around them danced heartily as if touched by merry mood.” （Y. Miyashita） 　　The trees and flowers have man’s feelings and can dance heartily， from which we can see how happy the youth were at that time. So the technique of personification uses the objective things to show human’s happiness， sorrows and hatred. 　　1.1.2 Personification often takes advantage of adverb， adjective， adv or noun. （Phrase） to express human’s feelings etc. for example： 　　“The sun kissed the green fields” 太阳亲吻着绿色的田野。 　　In the sentence， we can see that the man in such environment is in a good mood. If the traveler feels lonely or unhappy， we can’t help asking whether he can find such beautiful situations. 　　“The thirsty desert drank up the water.” 干渴的大漠吸干了水分。 　　In the sentence， the writer uses the phrase―“drank up” and the adjective―“thirsty”， which only belongs to animate things to describe the desert， therefore， the sentence effectively expresses what the writer wants to say. 　　1.2 The methods of translating personification. 　　Usually， personification can be translated with the method of literal translation， for example：“If not always in a hot mood to smash， the sea is always stealthily ready for a drowning.” 就算大海并非总是怒气冲冲的要粉碎一切，它却总是暗地里伺机吞没一切。