汉语颜色词“青”的文化内涵及其英译

Cultural Connotations and English Translations of Qing,One of the Chinese Color Words

汉语颜色词"青"的颜色义具有不确定性,主要可指绿、蓝、黑三色,给翻译带来了一定的挑战。本文详细分析了"青"分别表示这三种颜色时的文化内涵,并探讨了各内涵意义相关的汉语表达的英语翻译;另外特别提出并分析了"铁青"的颜色多样性问题。

Qing, one of the Chinese color words, can mainly be defined as green, blue or black. The confusion has made it a challenge to translate the word in a correct way. This paper analyzes in detail the cultural connotations of Qing when it refers to those three colors and provides English translations of the Qing-related expressions. The color vagueness of a particular expression, Tieqing, is also put forward for discussion.