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1、Whatfactorsthataffecttheirdecisionmaking?ThispapertriesfindanswersquestionslookingintoEnglishmetaphorsChinese.Keywords:translation;metaphor;reader1.IntroductiontranslationtermscoinedL.Venuti（1995）describeoriginal（Shuttleworth&Cowie,1997:59）.rootscanbetracedbackGermanphilosopherSchleiermachersargumen

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3、Xu,Luo,1984:315）.RecentlyIreadarticlesshowcompletelyconflictingviewsonthisquestion.InhisarticleentitledChineseWesternThinkingOnTranslation,A.LefeveremakesgeneralizationbasedcomparisonthinkingWhentranslatestextsproducedOthersoutsideitsboundaries,itthesereplacethem,puresimple.translationstakeplaceThey

4、functioncultureextentdisappearbehindtranslations.（BassnettLefevere,1998:14）However,FungKiudrawnquiteconclusionsfrominvestigationmetaphorbetweenOursetsdatashowedcaseimageoftenthannotretained,whereaswithmetaphors,substitutionfrequentlyused.Onereasonperhapsaudiencemorefamiliarreceptiveaveragereaderscul

5、ture.（Fung,1995）abovearousedmyinterestfindingoutwhetherdomesticateforeignizewhentranslatetext.followsshallcomparetranslators,ratherlook2.Metaphor?RandomHouseUnabridgedDictionary（secondaddition）definesfigurespeechtermphraseappliedliterallyapplicablesuggestresemblance.WhileaccordingBBCDictionary,wayde

6、scribingsayingelsequalitiesyoutryingdescribe.PeterNewmarkanyfigurativeexpression:transferredsensephysicalword;personificationanabstraction;applicationwordcollocationdoesdenote,i.e.,onethinganother.Metaphorssingle-viz.one-wordextended（acollocation,idiom,sentence,proverb,allegory,completeimaginative（1

7、988b:104）.Snell-HornbyrejectsNewmarksconceptmetaphorfavourWeinrichsdefinition（1988:56）.Shebelievescomplex（atleast）threedimensions（object,sense）,reflectingtensionresemblancedisparity56-57）.willfollowideaincludesproverballegory.3.aboutmetaphor?contrastvoluminousliteraturefieldliterarycriticismrhetoric

8、,largelyneglectedtheorists1995）.Cantranslatable?regardedinitialdiscussionsubject,Dagutsays,determinestranslatabilitysourceboldnessoriginality,culturalexperiencesemanticassociationsdrawssharedspeakersparticularlanguage（1976）.takeslightintegratedapproach.saysculture-specific,Whethertranslatable（i.e.li

9、teralcouldrecreateidenticaldimensions）,howdifficulttranslate,translatedshouldallcannotdecidedsetabstractrules,mustdependstructurewithinconcerned.56-9）vandenBroeckconceivestreatmentfunctionalrelevancycommunicativesituation（1981）.Maryalsoconsiderstranslatingeventbothinterlingualintercultural（1995）.Dif

10、ferentsemantic,perspectivesmentionedabove,holdspragmaticDrawingpracticalexperience,proposesseveralproceduresmetaphor:（1）Reproducingsamelanguage;（2）ReplacingSLanotherestablishedTLimage;（3）simile;（4）Retainingaddingsense;（5）Converting（6）Omittingifredundant.Discussionsespeciallythosewrittentheoretical.E

11、-CTranslationCoursebook（1980）widelyusedtextbookChina,ZhangPeiji（张培基）co-compilerssummarizedpopularmetaphors:Literal（similarfirstprocedure）;standardsecond（Samefifthprocedure）.Basedsuggestedcolleagues,GuoZhuzhang（郭著章）fiveAPracticalBetween（1996,revisededition）:plusexplanation;meaning;AdaptingUsingcouple

12、tsrenderimage.4.HowAreTranslated?methods,envisagedguidelinesstudentswellexhaustiverenderingmetaphor.Whichactuallyonesforeignizing?followingsectioncitesomeexamplestextbooks,dictionariesanalysis.4.1Examplescitedfrom:（1980）etal.,edition）English-Chinese（1993,Unabridged）Gusun（陆谷孙，chiefeditor）,LongmanIdio

13、msLiYinhua（李荫华）al.（reviserstranslation）,Freeword-for-word（1981）FengShize（冯世则）,Pragmatics（1994）HeZiran（何自然）.Example1hatedSakamoto,hadfeelinghedsurelyleadusourancestors.但是我恨阪本，并预感到他肯定会领着咱们去见祖先。（Zhang，1980:12）。（Mytranslation:.seeancestors.）2HitlerwasarmedteethlaunchedSecondWorldWar,fewyears,defeated.希特勒在发动第二次世界大战时是武装到牙齿的，可是不到几年，就被彻底击败了。（Zhan