从认知视角探析英语隐喻的翻译策略

On Translation of Metaphor from the Perspective of Cognition

隐喻的本质就是用一种事物理解和体验另一种事物,因而是两个认知领域的语义互动。本文通过隐喻的三个基本特征及其认知方式探讨隐喻的翻译策略,即:对等策略、转换策略、异化策略、舍弃喻体形象只译喻义策略和加注策略。

Metaphor＇ s essence is to comprehend and experience one thing through another. Therefore metaphor is semantic interaction of the two cognition fields. On the basis of the analysis on the three features of a metaphor and its cognition methods, this article studies several strategies of metaphor translation such as equity; transformation; foreignization; abandonment and note.