The translation of English and Chinese color words 英汉颜色词的翻译.docVIP

The translation of English and Chinese color words 英汉颜色词的翻译 [Abstract] The vocabulary is the most active factor in the language , and the meaning of color words in the vocabulary is abundant. The nature is multicoloured, so various nationalities have formed each unique color view in precipitated long-term history, refracting out gorgeous national culture. Culture has restrained the meaning of the color words from developing, and the cultural meaning of the color words has refracted out abundant cultural intension again. Because of different cultural issues, cultural tradition and culture psychology, the cultural connotations of the English and Chinese color words differ greatly, as a result, these particular cultural connotation meanings are cast under different environments by different nationalities. There are a lot of similarities and differences on the meaning between English and Chinese color words. In analyzing the reason why the difference produces, this paper puts forward the idea of overcoming the obstacle resulted from the difference, which has certain directive significance in smoothly carrying on cross-cultural communication and English-Chinese bilingual translation. This paper contrasts the translation embodiment to analyze a considerable amount of color words, which has summarized the law of translating and explained the importance of deeply understanding of cultural connotation about color words in translating practice. While in dealing with the process of studying English, we should be appropriate to understand different culture backgrounds, folkways, customs, geographical backgrounds and history in both English and Chinese languages, aiming at promoting the harmony of cross-cultural communication.[Key Words]: color words; translation; cultural connotation 英汉颜色词的翻译 [摘 要] 词汇在语言中最活跃, 词汇中的颜色词意义丰富。自然界是色彩斑斓的, 各民族在长期的历史沉淀中都形成了各自独特的颜色观，折射出绚丽多姿的民族文化。文化制约了颜色词的意义演变，颜色词的文化意义又折射出了丰富的文化内涵。由于文化内容、文化传统和文化心理有异，很多英汉颜色词的文化内涵差异较大，这些特定的文化内涵意义是不同民族在不同的环境下铸就而成的。英汉颜色词