“和尚打伞——无法无天”英译三题

歇后语“和尚打伞——无法无天”因使用了谐音双关辞格,其外译殊不容易。本文分别探讨以下问题:该语英译中的混乱,该语之可译性,该语新译之是非。

In the language of Chinese, there is one peculiar form called xiehouyu, one kind of two-part allegorical saying or witticism of which the ＇first part, always stated, is descriptive, while the second part, sometimes unstated, clinches the point, The present paper deals with translating of the xiehouyu ＂he shang da san - wufa wu tian＂ in which a complicated and rather amusing ptm is used,