Fortress Besieged features rich cultural and artistic features,which pose great challenges to its equivalent translation.This paper presents the translation of the arttistic elements like alluisions,four-character phr...Fortress Besieged features rich cultural and artistic features,which pose great challenges to its equivalent translation.This paper presents the translation of the arttistic elements like alluisions,four-character phrase and rhetorical langage,with the aim of sorting out the possible translation strategies for cultural translation.展开更多
Different countries and different nationalities have different cultures.There are differences between them as each culture has its characteristics.Therefore,as their different value,aesthetic taste,region and custom,d...Different countries and different nationalities have different cultures.There are differences between them as each culture has its characteristics.Therefore,as their different value,aesthetic taste,region and custom,different cultures assign different meanings to words.According to Tytler,the translation of cultural terms should follow the three principles of translation and adopt reasonable translation methods:retention method,transference translation method,transliteration method,hybrid method,approximation method,interpretation method and implication presentation method,to overcome the translation barriers caused by cultural differences and achieve the translation effect of functional equivalence proposed by Nida.展开更多
Older adult falls are a significant public health problem,but one that is amenable to preventive interventions.1,2 Despite the progress made in identifying risk factors,developing efficacious health-related interventi...Older adult falls are a significant public health problem,but one that is amenable to preventive interventions.1,2 Despite the progress made in identifying risk factors,developing efficacious health-related interventions,and promoting evidencebased programs in the community,much work remains before these strategies are broadly available and effectively used to reduce fall-related injuries.3 As Newton and ScottFindlay4 have pointed out,the translation of basic scientific knowledge into clinical studies,and the transformation of clinical studies into improvements in health services and public health practices,remain major obstacles to widespread adoption.展开更多
Interlingual communication is actually intercultural communication,Language is part of the culture of a people and the chief way by which the members of a society commnuicate。Basing on these points,this article gives...Interlingual communication is actually intercultural communication,Language is part of the culture of a people and the chief way by which the members of a society commnuicate。Basing on these points,this article gives examlples to show the facts that there esist in translation semantic correspondence and semantic aero between different languages and different cultures.When we do translating we should try to make up semantic aero caused by the culture.展开更多
Business English Business Communication Theory and Practice and other information, and its highly specialized vocabulary, writing a formal specification, the statement simple, multi-language set sociability. Business ...Business English Business Communication Theory and Practice and other information, and its highly specialized vocabulary, writing a formal specification, the statement simple, multi-language set sociability. Business English translation shall be subject to "true, accurate, and unified the" three principles, business should have a strong participant in cross-cultural awareness, as far as possible, such as cultural information.展开更多
The 1947 edition of T‘ai-Chi Ch‘üan:Its Effects and Practical Applications,an English translation of the original Chinese work,is by far the first discovered English publication systematically introducing the k...The 1947 edition of T‘ai-Chi Ch‘üan:Its Effects and Practical Applications,an English translation of the original Chinese work,is by far the first discovered English publication systematically introducing the knowledge and skills of taijiquan(previously known as T‘ai-Chi Ch‘üan).The 1947 edition had long remained in oblivion in Chinese academic circles,although it paved the way for the extensive popularization of taijiquan and has exerted a far-reaching impact on the English-speaking world.This paper applies the four dimensions of canonicity(rich content,substantial creativity,time-and-space transcendency,infinite readability)to examine the aesthetic value of the English text.The purpose is to reveal the understanding and reception of taijiquan among English readers,shed light on the English translation of the taijiquan culture,and promote the canonization of taijiquan as a representative of fine traditional Chinese culture and its integration into global cultures.展开更多
Film translation plays an essential role in cultural exchange.Telling a Chinese story,The Last Emperor is a film made by western crews and its dialogues were written in English.The translation of the film reflects the...Film translation plays an essential role in cultural exchange.Telling a Chinese story,The Last Emperor is a film made by western crews and its dialogues were written in English.The translation of the film reflects the clashes between Chinese and Western cultures.As a prestigious theory of translation,Susan Bassnett’s cultural translation theory is widely used to analyze and evaluate translations of various works.This essay categorizes the translation methods applied and uses Bassnett’s cultural translation theory as its theoretical basis,analyzing and evaluating the translation of the culturally-loaded terms in the translation of The Last Emperor.展开更多
Some critics claim that Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior has distorted Chinese culture. However, from the view of skopos theory, Kingston actually translates Chinese culture to the American audience succes...Some critics claim that Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior has distorted Chinese culture. However, from the view of skopos theory, Kingston actually translates Chinese culture to the American audience successfully. Therefore an analysis of the novel from the perspective of skopos theory can justify Kingston's culture translation against the critiques.展开更多
Based on communications presented at the international symposium‘West of Japan/East of Europe’,hosted by the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in concomitance with the exhibit...Based on communications presented at the international symposium‘West of Japan/East of Europe’,hosted by the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in concomitance with the exhibition‘Bruno Taut’s Hyuga Villa in Atami,Japan’,this text discusses the question of cultural translation in architecture departing from the example of Hyuga Villa,realised by Taut in 1936.Despite the inherently immobile status of architecture,architectural ideas travel widely,as well as their conceivers,the architects.The cultural passage implicit to translation is never flawless,though.Hyuga Villa offers a good case in point,since it was conceived by an architect who had only a partial grasp of local culture and who tried to integrate elements of both Western and Japanese design.But what are the implications of‘translating’architecture?Can we translate not only words but also images,details,building conventions,even aesthetic sensitivities?And is everything translatable?Applied to an artifact recognised today as an important testimony to the encounter between Western and Eastern design cultures,these questions relate to issues that are central to the debate on both architectural history and built heritage,proposing an alternative approach in terms of method and scope.展开更多
文摘Fortress Besieged features rich cultural and artistic features,which pose great challenges to its equivalent translation.This paper presents the translation of the arttistic elements like alluisions,four-character phrase and rhetorical langage,with the aim of sorting out the possible translation strategies for cultural translation.
文摘Different countries and different nationalities have different cultures.There are differences between them as each culture has its characteristics.Therefore,as their different value,aesthetic taste,region and custom,different cultures assign different meanings to words.According to Tytler,the translation of cultural terms should follow the three principles of translation and adopt reasonable translation methods:retention method,transference translation method,transliteration method,hybrid method,approximation method,interpretation method and implication presentation method,to overcome the translation barriers caused by cultural differences and achieve the translation effect of functional equivalence proposed by Nida.
文摘Older adult falls are a significant public health problem,but one that is amenable to preventive interventions.1,2 Despite the progress made in identifying risk factors,developing efficacious health-related interventions,and promoting evidencebased programs in the community,much work remains before these strategies are broadly available and effectively used to reduce fall-related injuries.3 As Newton and ScottFindlay4 have pointed out,the translation of basic scientific knowledge into clinical studies,and the transformation of clinical studies into improvements in health services and public health practices,remain major obstacles to widespread adoption.
文摘Interlingual communication is actually intercultural communication,Language is part of the culture of a people and the chief way by which the members of a society commnuicate。Basing on these points,this article gives examlples to show the facts that there esist in translation semantic correspondence and semantic aero between different languages and different cultures.When we do translating we should try to make up semantic aero caused by the culture.
文摘Business English Business Communication Theory and Practice and other information, and its highly specialized vocabulary, writing a formal specification, the statement simple, multi-language set sociability. Business English translation shall be subject to "true, accurate, and unified the" three principles, business should have a strong participant in cross-cultural awareness, as far as possible, such as cultural information.
基金a staged research result of the“Translation of the Library of Chinese Martial Arts from the Perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative”(17BTY034),a program funded by the National Social Science Fund of China.
文摘The 1947 edition of T‘ai-Chi Ch‘üan:Its Effects and Practical Applications,an English translation of the original Chinese work,is by far the first discovered English publication systematically introducing the knowledge and skills of taijiquan(previously known as T‘ai-Chi Ch‘üan).The 1947 edition had long remained in oblivion in Chinese academic circles,although it paved the way for the extensive popularization of taijiquan and has exerted a far-reaching impact on the English-speaking world.This paper applies the four dimensions of canonicity(rich content,substantial creativity,time-and-space transcendency,infinite readability)to examine the aesthetic value of the English text.The purpose is to reveal the understanding and reception of taijiquan among English readers,shed light on the English translation of the taijiquan culture,and promote the canonization of taijiquan as a representative of fine traditional Chinese culture and its integration into global cultures.
文摘Film translation plays an essential role in cultural exchange.Telling a Chinese story,The Last Emperor is a film made by western crews and its dialogues were written in English.The translation of the film reflects the clashes between Chinese and Western cultures.As a prestigious theory of translation,Susan Bassnett’s cultural translation theory is widely used to analyze and evaluate translations of various works.This essay categorizes the translation methods applied and uses Bassnett’s cultural translation theory as its theoretical basis,analyzing and evaluating the translation of the culturally-loaded terms in the translation of The Last Emperor.
文摘Some critics claim that Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior has distorted Chinese culture. However, from the view of skopos theory, Kingston actually translates Chinese culture to the American audience successfully. Therefore an analysis of the novel from the perspective of skopos theory can justify Kingston's culture translation against the critiques.
文摘Based on communications presented at the international symposium‘West of Japan/East of Europe’,hosted by the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in concomitance with the exhibition‘Bruno Taut’s Hyuga Villa in Atami,Japan’,this text discusses the question of cultural translation in architecture departing from the example of Hyuga Villa,realised by Taut in 1936.Despite the inherently immobile status of architecture,architectural ideas travel widely,as well as their conceivers,the architects.The cultural passage implicit to translation is never flawless,though.Hyuga Villa offers a good case in point,since it was conceived by an architect who had only a partial grasp of local culture and who tried to integrate elements of both Western and Japanese design.But what are the implications of‘translating’architecture?Can we translate not only words but also images,details,building conventions,even aesthetic sensitivities?And is everything translatable?Applied to an artifact recognised today as an important testimony to the encounter between Western and Eastern design cultures,these questions relate to issues that are central to the debate on both architectural history and built heritage,proposing an alternative approach in terms of method and scope.