英语毕业论文070.中西方文化背景中对龙的不同阐释.pdfVIP

中西方文化背景中对龙的不同阐释

TheDifferentTranslationsofLoongundertheBackgroundofChineseand

WesternCultures

Abstract

ChinesepeopleareproudofChinesewordlongfromancienttimestillnow,

whichisthesymbolofauspiciousnessandauthority.ButinWestern

people’seyes,theEnglishworddragonisthesymbolofdevilandbugbear.

Solonganddragonarequitedifferent.ButinEnglish-Chineseor

Chinese-Englishtranslations,thetwowordsareoftentranslatedinto

eachother.ThetranslationsignorethedifferencesbetweenChineseand

Westernculture,andcauseculturalmisunderstanding.Sohowtotranslate

ChinesewordlongintoEnglishbecomesaseriousproblem.Itisagood

waytotranslatethemfromthedifferencesbetweenlonganddragon,from

therelationbetweencharacteristicsofChineselanguageandEnglish

language.

KeyWords

Culturaldifferences;dragon;long;Loong;translation

摘要

从古至今，中国人都对汉字龙感到自豪，因为龙是吉祥和权威的象征。而在西方

人的眼中，英语单词dragon意味着罪恶和怪物，是邪恶的象征。因此龙和dragon

在很大的程度上是不同的。但是在英译汉或汉译英中，我们会经常把这两个词互

译。这种翻译忽视了中西方文化的差异，从而造成了严重的文化误解。显而易见，

这种翻译是有问题的。因此如何把汉字龙翻译成英语就成为一个很严肃的问题。

从龙和dragon的差异、汉语和英语这两种语言特点的差异来确定龙的英译不失

为一种好的方法.

关键词

文化差异；dragon;龙；Loong；翻译

Introduction

Itiswell-knownthattherearemanydifferencesbetweenChineseand

Westernculture.Nowadaysculturalcommunicationbetweendifferent

countriesisveryfrequent,soaccuratetranslationbecomesingreatneed

asoccasionsrequire.Butgreatdifferencesexistindifferentlanguages.

Peopleineverynationalwaysunderstandothernations’culturewith

theirownviewswithoutconsideringwhethertheyarerightorwrongin

origin,asisaverycommonphenomenon.Hencethemisunderstandings

betweendifferentnationscomeintobeing.Itismoreandmoreimportant

thatculturalunderstandingservesasthecommunicationalwaybetween

diff