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ISSN 1798-4769 Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 297-305, March 2017 DOI: /10.17507/jltr.0802.11 On the Translation of English Hard News under Inter-cultural Background Yurong Hao School of Foreign Languages, Lanzhou City University, Gansu, China Abstract—The author firstly introduced the characteristics of hard news form the perspectives of the structure, linguistic features and language style. Secondly, numerous cultural background factors are classified into six types including geographical environment, life style, traditional customs, religious beliefs, historical allusion and literature connotations which are the underlying causes of cultural barriers occurred in the hard news translation. To remove the cultural barriers, based on the Lawrence Venuti’s (1995) foreignization and domesticaiton translation theory, the paper presents principles for hard news translation. By giving a large number of instances of hard news translations, this paper mainly focuses on such issues as the characteristics of hard news, the influence of the inter-culture on the hard news translation, and relevant translation strategies, and last but not least, attaches significance to the inter-culture awareness of the translator during the process of hard news translation. Index Terms—hard news, translation strategies, inter-cultural awareness I. INTRODUCTION News refers to the timeliest report of events that have just happened, are happening, or are going to happen and it is born to meet the need of propagation and communication of information in human society. A piece