中国传统文化词汇诗词翻译.docx

一．中国古代传统文化翻译1. 传统词汇刺绣：embroidery剪纸：Paper Cutting书法：Calligraphy对联：(Spring Festival) Couplets象形文字：Pictograms/Pictographic Characters人才流动：Brain Drain/Brain Flow四合院：Siheyuan/Quadrangle战国：Warring States风水：Fengshui/Geomantic Omen铁饭碗：Iron Bowl /well-paid job 集体舞：Group Dance红白喜事：Weddings and Funerals中秋节：Mid-Autumn Day结婚证：Marriage Certificate儒家文化：Confucian Culture附属学校：Affiliated school元宵：Tangyuan/Sweet Rice Dumpling 一国两制：One Country, Two Systems火锅：Hot Pot《诗经》：The Book of Songs素质教育：Essential-qualities-oriented Education《史记》：Historical Records/Records of the Grand Historian大跃进：Great Leap Forward (Movement)除夕：Chinese New Year’s Eve/Eve of the Spring Festival中国特色的社会主义：Chinese-charactered Socialist/Socialist with Chinese characteristics孟子：Mencius亭/阁： Pavilion/ Attic大中型国有企业：Large and Medium-sized State-owned Enterprises火药：gunpowder农历：Lunar Calendar京剧：Beijing Opera/Peking Opera太极拳：Tai Chi独生子女证：The Certificate of One-child天坛：Altar of Heaven in Beijing小吃摊：Snack Bar/Snack Stand春卷：Spring Roll(s)追星族：Star Struck故宫博物院：The Palace Museum相声：Cross-talk/Comic Dialogue下岗：Lay off/Laid off北京烤鸭：Beijing Roast Duck烟花爆竹：fireworks and firecracker电视小品：TV Sketch/TV Skit香港澳门同胞：Compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao文化大革命：Cultural Revolution门当户对：Perfect Match/Exact Match中外合资企业：Joint Ventures文房四宝（笔墨纸砚）：The Four Treasure of the Study Brush, Inkstick, Paper, and Inkstone四大名著 the Four Great Classical Novels《 三国演义 》The Romance of the Three Kingdoms《 水浒传 》?Heroes of the Marshes ; Water Margins? 《 西游记 》Pilgrimage to the West 《 红楼梦 》Dream of the Red Mansions ; The story of the Stone 2.中国意念词 八卦trigram 阴、阳 yin, yang 道 Dao江湖（世界） the jianghu World （the traits’ world） e.g. You can’t control everything in a traits’ world. (人在江湖，身不由己) 道 Daoism（Taoism） 上火 excessive internal heat 儒学 Confucianism 红学（《红楼梦》研究） redology 世外桃源 Shangri-la or Arcadia 大锅饭 getting an equal share regardless of the work done 不搞一刀切 no imposing uniformity on … 合乎国情，顺乎民意 to conform with the national conditions and the will of the people 脱贫 to shake off p