Abstract
Culture contains many aspects such as the history, the religious belief, the manners , customs ,values, thinking methods and so on . Translation makes it possible to communicate between different cultures. English as a common language in the world is one of our bridges to the world. Although it narrowed the world and pushed the spread of mutual knowledge and culture. However, the Chinese culture has extensive knowledge and is greatly different from the western countries . It's really a hard work to translate some terms , sentences and articls absolutely and correctly. Therefore, when we translate, we must accomplish right understanding differences between English culture and Chinese culture , or it will influence a right translation . If there is nothing wrong with the content of translation , it will give us a good feast . Or it will cause some misunderstanding and we can’t have a good communication. The great differences between English and Chinese cultures affect the translation quality directly. Nowadays, translation as a cross-culture event becomes more and more important in international communication and information exchange. we should try our best to reduce the difficulties caused by cultural difference and to develop cultural exchanges between different nationalities So it is necessary to have a sufficient and thorough understanding of different cultures in the target language, then we can make better translation.
Keywords
Culture Difference Chinese and Western Translation
Contents
Abstract I
Contents I
Introduction 1
1. Culture and Translation 2
1.1 Definition of culture 2
1.2 Definition of translation 2
2. The Relation between culture and translation 3
2.1 the history of translation 3
2.1.1 benefits of the translation 3
2.2 Some barriers in translation 3
3. Difference of Chinese and Western religions 4
3.1 Chinese religion 4
3.1.1 Chinese religion and translation 4
3.2 Western religion 4
3.2.1 Western religion and translation 4
4. Difference of Chinese and Western Manners 5
4.1 Greeting of Chinese and Foreigners 5
4.1.1 Greeting and translation 5
4.2 Manner phrases of Chinese and Foreigners 5
4.2.1 Manner phrases and translation 5
5. Difference of Chinese and Western Festivals 6
5.1 Festival in China and Western Countries 6
5.2 Some difference of Spring Festival and Christmas Day 6
6. Difference of Chinese and Western Environment 7
6.1 Difference of Chinese and Western Geographical Environment 7
6.2 Difference of Chinese and Western Living Environment 7
7. Translation Strategies 8
7.1 How to deal with cultural difference 8
7.1.1 Translation Strategies and its application 8
8 .Conclusion 9
8.1.1 conclusion 9
References 10
