英汉双语中“貌合神离”的翻译误区

On the Misunderstandings of Non-equivalent Translation Between English and Chinese

在跨文化交际翻译中,英汉语的学习者会时常遇到一些在各自语言中形式相似、貌似相对应的单词和短语,有时二者是对等的,并为两种语言的交流搭建一个平台。而又有些例证中,英汉语字面上貌似对等,但真实含义却相去甚远。发现并研究英汉双语中的这一现象,对于习者而言十分重要,能够避免一些跨文化交际中的误解。

In cross-cultural communication and translation between English and Chinese, language learners will always encounter some seemingly equivalent words and phrases with similar forms in both languages. Sometimes they share the same or similar meaning, which will bridge the communication between the two languages; while in most other cases, their meanings deviate from each other, due to the non - equivalence between two cultures. To find and study such a language phenomenon is very important to language learners, since it will effectively avoid some actual misunderstandings in cross - cultural communication between English and Chinese.