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英语专业的毕业论文 PAGE i PAGE 7 Cultural default in Translation and the Analysis of the strategies for Its Compensation Applicant: Number: Class: Supervisor: Faculty: Abstract Cultural exchange is one of the most important tasks and purposes of translation, however, cultural differences and other factors have caused the loss of culture elements in translation. Cultural default is defined as the absence of relevant cultural background information shared by the two sides in communication. This phenomenon exists widely in literary works ,which causes great difficulty to translators, for it is hard to achieve complete equivalent effect. Translators should attach importance to the cultural default in translation and adopt flexible and effective compensation strategies, also, translator should know what he is doing and has his cultural awareness and creativity in the actual operation of cultural elements. Key words: translation; culture; culture default; equivalence; compensation strategies; cultural awareness and creativity contents TOC \o 1-3 \h \z \u 1. A Brief Introduction of Culture, Translation and their relationships 1 2. Reasons of Culture Default. 2 2.1 The Translator Himself 2 2.2 Culture-loaded Words 2 2.3 Idioms and Allusions 2 2.4 Words of Respect and Humility 3 2.5 Nonverbal Language 3 3.Strategic Methods of Cultural Compensation 3 3.1 Literal translation, 4 3.2 Annotation 4 3.3 Contextual amplification 5 3.4 Paraphrase 5 3.5 Compensation of rhythm or sound pattern, structure in poems (Huwen cheng 2007) 5 4. Several Requirements for the Translators 6 5. Conclusion 8 Bibliography 8 1. A Brief Introduction of Culture, Translation and their relationships Translation and culture are closely related to each other, for translation is not only the transfer of one language to another, but also an important means ofcommunication across cultures. Culture is an ambiguous and intrigu