1、whilelatterdesignatestypedeliberatelybreaksconventionsbyretainingsomethingforeignessoriginal.ButwhatpracticelikeChina?Dotranslatorstendusemethodsordomesticatingones?Whatfactorsthataffecttheirdecisionmaking?ThispapertriesfindanswersquestionslookingintoEnglishmetaphorsChinese. Keywords:translation;met
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3、ondomesticationmaynewChinese,butconceptstheycarryhavebeenatleastcenturyheartmostcontroversies.LuXun(鲁迅)oncesaidbeforetranslating,hasmake:adaptoriginalretainpossibleflavourtext(Xu,Luo,1984:315).RecentlyIreadarticlesshowcompletelyconflictingviewsonthisquestion.InhisarticleentitledChineseWesternThinkin
4、gOnTranslation,A.LefeveremakesgeneralizationbasedcomparisonthinkingWhentranslatestextsproducedOthersoutsideitsboundaries,itthesereplacethem,puresimple.translations takeplaceTheyfunctioncultureextentdisappearbehindtranslations.(BassnettLefevere,1998:14) However,FungKiudrawnquiteconclusionsfrominvesti
5、gationmetaphorbetweenChinese, Oursetsdatashowedcaseimageoftenthannotretained,whereaswithmetaphors,substitutionfrequentlyused.Onereasonperhapsaudiencemorefamiliarreceptiveaveragereadersculture.(Fung,1995) abovearousedmyinterestfindingoutwhetherdomesticateforeignizewhentranslatetext.followsshallcompar
6、etranslators,ratherlook2.Metaphor?RandomHouseUnabridgedDictionary(secondaddition)definesfigurespeechtermphraseappliedliterallyapplicablesuggestresemblance.WhileaccordingBBCDictionary,waydescribingsayingelsequalitiesyoutryingdescribe.PeterNewmarkanyfigurativeexpression:transferredsensephysicalword;personificationanabstraction;applicationwordcollocationdoesdenote,i.e.,onethinganother.Metaphorssingle-viz.one-wordextended(acollocation,idiom,sentence,proverb,allegory,completeimaginative(1988b:104).Snell-HornbyrejectsNewmarkconceptmetaphorfavourWeinrichdefinition(1988:56).Shebelieves
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