英汉习语翻译中的文化共享与文化亏损

Cultural Sharing and Loss in Translation of English-Chinese Idioms

习语是人们在社会生活中长期积累并提炼出来的语言,是各民族语言的精华,同时习语反映的是各民族独特的文化。习语的翻译受到文化影响是翻译界公认的问题。习语的翻译不仅涉及到文化共享,而且也涉及到文化亏损。通过探讨英汉习语翻译中的文化共享,分析如何减少习语翻译中的文化亏损,从而达到英汉语言有效交流的目的。

As the core and essence of language,idioms are the expressions of language extracted by various ethnic groups in the social life accumulated over time,which is reflection of culture.The translation process of idioms will inevitably be influenced and restricted by cultural factors.Cultural losses are usual in cultural sharing.It first discusses the cultural sharing in English-Chinese idiom translation,and secondly analyzes how to reduce the cultural loss in idiom translation,so as to achieve the purpose of effective communication between English and Chinese.