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What is the nature of translation? The nature of translation is paraphrasing, or transferring the original (source language -- SL) meaning to the target language (TL). Translation is always meaning-based. What is the most influential and most popular criterion of translation in China? P.3 pressiveness and elegance (“信、达、雅”) – a most influential and most popular criterion of translation– that is first advocated by Yan Fu (严复). What is the criterion of CET adopted in this course-book by Chen Hongwei and Li Yadan? P.5/7 “Similarity in function and corresponding in meaning” (功能相似，语义相符) is what is adopted as the Criteria of CET in this course-book by Chen Hongwei and Li Yadan. 4.What types of culture are there? There are 3 types of “culture” defined by 邢福义, which are: material culture, institutional culture and mental culture.. 5.What kinds of scritpt are Chinese and English respectively? Chinese is an ideographic one / ideographic-oriented syllabic script (表意音节文字) , while English is an alphabetic script, formed by the combination of one or more of the 26 English letters. 6.What is the reason leading to cultural shock, simentically? P.34- Simentically, semantic non-correspondence (语义相异) and semantic zero (语义空缺) are the very reasons leading to the so-called cultural shock . 7.What is text? What are its unique features: Text(语篇) is a semantic unit expressing a holistic concept. Coherence(衔接) consistency(连贯) are its unique features. 8.心有余而力不足。 One’s ability falls short of one’s wishes. 9.您的建议我会永远铭记在心。 I will always bear your advice in mind. 10.得人心者得天下。 Those who gain popularity among the people will gain the power. 11.哀莫大于心死。 The greatest despair comes from a devastated heart. 12.治国/家/病/水 administer a country manage a household cure disease tame rivers 13.基本工资/建设/设施/利益 basic wage capital construction infrastructure fundamental interest 14.箱子里已经没有地方了。　　There is no more space in the chest. 15.费孝通(社会学家、人类学家、民族学家) 在80寿辰聚会上，曾经意味深长地讲了一句16字箴言： “各美其美，美