中国饮食名称的结构及其巧译

Chinese Food Name:Construction and Translation

中国的饮食反映了中国各民族的悠久历史和鲜明的文化特点。本文认为,中国饮食名称的构成可分为十一个方面,其中大部分是由非单纯原材料构成的;要翻译这些饮食名称除用直译、意译等常用方法外,还有转译、形似译等七种巧译法。研究中国饮食,特别是其命名结构和译法非常重要,十分有意义。

Chinese food manifests the historical and cultural characteristics of China＇s nationalities.This article discusses the Chinese food name construction which comes from 11 aspects.Chinese food names are largely reflected by more than one cooking material and they can be translated in many skillful ways besides the common ways like literal translation or free translation.To investigate China＇s food names,especially food name construction and translation,is interesting and meaningful.