The Colour Terms Translation in English and Chinese颜色词的中英对比翻译文档格式.docx

The Colour Terms Translation in English and Chinese颜色词的中英对比翻译文档格式.docx

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Intoday’smulti-culturalsociety,translation,asanimportantdeviceinthecross-culturalcommunication,isamodeofculturaltransfer.Colourtermsarecloselyconnectedwithculture.Asapartoflanguage,colourtermsareendowedwithabundantculturalconnotations.Moreover,colourterms’lexicalmeaningandsymbolicmeaningreflectvariousculturesandculturalbackgrounds.Inordertopromotethedevelopmentofthemulti-culturalsocietyandcross-culturalcommunication,itissignificanttounderstandandgraspcolourtermsandtheirfunctionsintheculturaltransfer.

Thisthesis,targetingatimprovingtranslationproficiencyandpromotingcross-culturalcommunication,makesacarefulanalysisofcolourterms,includingthedefinition,thehistoryinEnglishandChinese,thetranslationdifficultiesandthetranslationtechniques.

KeyWords

Colourterms;

translationdifficulties;

translationtechniques

摘　要

在文化多元化的今天，翻译作为跨文化交流的一种重要手段，是文化转换的一种模式。

颜色词与文化有着极为密切的关系。

作为语言的一部分，颜色词被赋予了丰富的文化内涵，其词汇意义和象征意义都反映了不同的文化及文化背景。

为了促进多元文化社会的发展和加强跨文化交流，了解和掌握颜色词及其在文化转换中的作用具有极为重要的价值和意义。

论文从探讨颜色词的概念及其在中英两种语言中的历史比较出发，仔细研究了颜色词在翻译中存在的困难，并在此基础上总结和论证了颜色词翻译的主要技巧，包括同化和异化两种翻译技巧。

论文旨在认真分析颜色词及其翻译的基础上增强人们的翻译实践能力和跨文化交际能力。

关键词

颜色词；

翻译困难；

翻译技巧

Introduction

Peoplecannotlivewithoutcolour.Languagewillbemorevividwithcolourterms.

Colourtermsareapartoflanguage,andcolourterms’translationisimportantintoday’ssociety.Lotsofclassicworksarerichwithcolourterms.Correctandaccuratecolourterms’translationhelpstotransmitthemeaningofthesourcetext.

Colourtermsareendowedwithvariousemotionsofdifferentnations.Itisnecessarytolearntheculturalconnotationsofcolourtermsbeforelearningthenation’slanguage.

Thethesis,centeringonthecolourterms’translation,isdividedintothreeparts.

ChapterOnemakesananalysisofcolourterms’definitionanditshistoryinChineseandEnglish.

ChapterTwoillustratesthedifficultiesintranslatingbasiccolourtermsandobjectcolourterms.

ChapterThreemakesastudyofthetwomaintranslationtechniquesforcolourterms,thatis,domesticationandforeignization

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Ⅰ.ABriefIntroductiontoColourTerms

A.TheDefinitionofColourTerms

“Colourterm”indicatesthewordwhichisusedtostandforakindofcolour.Thisdefinitioniswellknownthroughouttheword,but“colourtermsdonotnecessarilymeanthesamethingascolourfulterms.ColourfulEnglishmayappearasidiomsorinfigurativeexpressions,whilecolourtermsarewordswhichsimplyshowdifferentcolours.Liketheonomatopoeicword,acolourtermhaslittlemeritinitself.Onlywhenitsuggeststheimageoftheoriginal,orfortifiesthesenseintheversion,ithasvalueintranslation.”.（XiaoJunshi,P173,1982）Obviously,asapartofwords,colourtermsareusedinwritingtotransmitinformation.Inphysics,itstandsforthecolourreflectedbyobjects.

1.ClassificationofColourTerms

Therearetwomainkindsofcolourterms:

basiccolourtermsandobjectcolourterms.

Basiccolourtermsmean“wordsusedtodescribethecolourofobjectswhentheyappear”.（LuHongmei,P135,2006）BasiccolourtermscomefromthelanguageofAnglo-Saxon,includingsevenkindsofcolours.InChinese,theyare“赤、橙、黄、绿、青、蓝、紫”.InEnglish,theyare“red,orange,yellow,green,blue,indigoandviolet”.Althoughbasiccolourtermscontainonlyafewwords,theycanbeusedwithotherwordstoindicatemorecolours.Theyareveryactive.

Objectcolourtermsmean“termsusedtoindicatecolourswhicharethenamesofobjects”.（LuHongmei,P135,2006）Lotsofthesekindsofwordsexistinanykindsoflanguages,suchas“gold,silver,orange”inEnglish,and“金黄色、米色、银色”inChinese.

2.FunctionofColourTerms

Generallyspeaking,colourtermshaveallthefunctionswhichwordshave.Insourcelanguage,theauthoralwaysusesthecolourtermstoexpresstheimageofthetext.Thisisthefirstfunctionofcolourterms,thatis,informativefunction.Forexample,thecolourtermsusedinthefollowtextformthelandscapeofanautumnevening.

“Thegroundwasacarpetofdeepreddishbrownintheglowofanautumneveningsun,temperedbythetrees.Yongbirchessprangup,caughtlightononeside,andweresparklinggreenthere;

theshadowysidesofthestemswerewarm,deepblack-green.Behindthesaplings,behindthebrownishredsoilwasaverydelicatesky,bluishgrey,warm,hardlyblue,allaglow.Againstitwereahazyborderofgreenandanetworkoflittlestemsandyellowishleaves.Afewfiguresofwoodgatherswerewanderingaroundlikedarkmassesofmysteriousshadow.”（Irvingstone:

Lustoflife,BookThree）

Thesecondfunctionofcolourtermsisemotivefunction.Itisacceptedthatdifferentcolours