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语义翻译 英语课程与教学论 xx Outline  Linguistic views on translation cultural views on translation communicative views on translation semantic views on translation Semantic views on translation Eugene A. Nida is the developer of the dynamic-equivalence Bible translation theory. He has been a pioneer in the fields of translation theory and linguistics. He says: ‘Translation means translating meaning.’ Peter Newmark , He says: ‘Translation is rendering the meaning of a text into another language in the way that the author intended the text. (1988) Semantic translation: the translator attempts, within the bare syntactic and semantic constraints of the target language, to reproduce the precise contextual meaning of the author.(1982) In semantic translation, greater attention is paid to rendering the author’s original thought-processes in target language than to attempting to re-interpret source text in a way which the translator considers more appropriate for the target setting. (Shuttleworth and Cowie 1997) From the views as set out above, we can conclude that all these views focus on the semantic equivalence between the two languages. Equivalence between English and Chinese  at word level (英汉词字层次的对等关系） When we do some translations, we may find there is neither invariable wording nor fixed sentence pattern in English-Chinese translation. Generally speaking, the equivalence between English and Chinese at word level may be categorized as follows: 1,Word-for-Word Equivalence （词字对等) Marxism: 马克思主义 Communism 共产主义 Aspirin: 阿斯匹林 AIDS 艾滋病 2, One Word with Multiple Equivalents of the Same  Meaning.(多词同义） wife: 妻子、爱人、夫人、老婆、老伴、媳妇、 内人等 potato: 马铃薯、洋芋、土豆、山药蛋等 3, One Word with Several Equivalents ofDifferent Meanings. （一词多义） Cousin: 堂兄、堂弟、堂姐、