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基础笔译 Literary essay translation Political speech translation Title and poster translation Exposition translation Argumentative News report translation Prose Poem Cultures in translation Regression in translation Abstract Notes Tourist travel Students presentation Exam Lecture 2 Features and translation of Literary essay translation Design features of language Arbitrarieness Duality Productivity Displacement Cultural transmission Interchangeability Sun stroke Stroke of luck When the going gets tough, the tough gets going What we see and feel Nostalgia Reminiscence Melancholy Literary notes Hyacinth Should the Chinese “乡愁” be translated into “homesickness”, nostalgia, reminiscenece, melancholy, or longing? None of them expresses the meaning, which hovers somewhere in and around all those words? Jujubes never fight for favor in the vemal season, when March finds willow buds green and peach blooms pink, and all the other foliage and flora stir in their desire with the gentle touch of spring, Jujubes’ winter-stiffened branches remain unaffected, looking dry as bones against the bright sky. However, no one knows when, the seemingly lifeless black twigs begin to spit tiny green sprouts, and then tiny pale blossoms. My eyes have never noticed them, though. Not many have, I’m afraid. But when it’s harvest time, people all flock to the trees glittering with ripe dates. Now it’s a popular and fashionable practice for citizens to vote for a special flower-not a tree-to represent their city. Otherwise the “candydate” for Beijing City Tree would true to namely falls on the jujube. At Qikou Town in Shanxi, there is an ancient Yellow ferry, though too old to be of much use and notice. However, what indeed outweights my disappointment is the finding of a well-preserved village from the Ming and Qing dynasties in the deep mountains close to Qikou, Along the tortuous ravines and by the rocky slopes, dwellings were built resembling cave architectures with corni