文化差异与英汉语言中"红色"的翻译

作为文化的载体,语言折射出其文化背景、习俗;作为语言的一部分,颜色词的使用使得语言更加丰富、生动多彩。在英汉两种语言文化中,红色体现出不同的语言文化内涵。译文应传递颜色词红色所包含的语言文化信息,而不是仅仅追求语义层面的对等。同时,译文还应符合译入语的文化习俗。这样,读者能够像原文读者一样欣赏原文。

Cultural Difference and the Difference Connotations of the Word "Red" in the English and Chinese Languages

Being the carrier of culture,human languages reflect specific cultural background and custom.Particularly,languages are enriched and enlivened by the use of words denoting colors.Cultural connotations by the word "red" in the English language are quite different from that in the Chinese language.Hence, the work of translation is responsible for the achieving of cultural as well as semantic equivalence.Meanwhile,the translated text is required to comply with the culture and custom in the source language so that readers can appreciate it just as readers appreciating the original text.