习语的分类与翻译.ppt

audience, because of idiomatic sentences, familiar expressions and cultural phenomena, sometimes the target language readers may not realize that they are actually reading a translated text from another culture. While literal translation and foreignization put em- phasis on the linguistic and stylistic features of the source text, and the target text trans- lated in this way may not be very smooth in language and the content may not be fami- liar to the target readers, so they may feel foreign when reading the translation. Some say that the dichotomy of domestica- tion and foreignization is the development and elevation of the dichotomy of free trans- lation and literal translation from the diachronic prospective. But I don’t agree. In my view, as the literal translation stresses faith- fulness both to the original form and content, it certainly highlights transplanting the foreign cul- tural aspects of the source language text into the target language text. 二、Classification and Translation of English and Chinese Idioms 2.1 English and Chinese Idioms Corresponding to Each Other and Their Translation As people have many things in common, e.g. they have many similarities in modes of thinking, life habits, cognition abilities, as well as in geogra- phical conditions and geological environments, i.e. they share many cultural aspects, there are plenty of idioms between two cultures and two languages. The same is true of English and Chinese. There are quite a number of idioms in English and Chinese which correspond to each other. Look at the following: The great fish eat up the small. 大鱼吃小鱼。 He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. 骑虎难下。// It’s the saddle that makes the horse and the tailor, the man. 人靠衣裳马 靠鞍。// One swallow does not make a summer. 一燕不成夏。 // 洗手不干 wash one’s hands of // 旧瓶装新酒 new wine in old bottles. // 玩火者必自焚。He who plays with fire gets burned. Please