Three-word Primer is one of Chinese classics of enlightenment. It has the distinctive senses of beauty in form, meaning and rhymes. This paper focuses on the Relevance Theory which plays an important role in guiding t...Three-word Primer is one of Chinese classics of enlightenment. It has the distinctive senses of beauty in form, meaning and rhymes. This paper focuses on the Relevance Theory which plays an important role in guiding to translate Three-word Primer. After analyzing some examples from two translated versions, it's then suggested that it be necessary and important to translate poems in one language into poems in another language.展开更多
文摘Three-word Primer is one of Chinese classics of enlightenment. It has the distinctive senses of beauty in form, meaning and rhymes. This paper focuses on the Relevance Theory which plays an important role in guiding to translate Three-word Primer. After analyzing some examples from two translated versions, it's then suggested that it be necessary and important to translate poems in one language into poems in another language.