浅析英语中的委婉语及翻译.docVIP

浅析英语中的委婉语及翻译 英语2046 杨梅 200407230 ? 摘 要：在任何一个社会中，总有一些不能直截了当说出来的话。在人们交流的场合中，有相当一部分词语显示的是轻浮的、粗俗的、或至少是使人难堪的意思。为了避免提到这些禁忌语或减轻这些词语对人感情的伤害，人们创造并使用了委婉语，这也能从中表现出一种文化的特征。在西方社会文化生活中，在许多领域，人们使用委婉语的情况和世界上大多数地区的人们使用的情况一样。但也存在着独有的现象，本文着重介绍了在英语国家中，人们使用委婉语的一般知识和几个特殊的方面，以及探讨了人们使用这些委婉语的原因。委婉语经常被用来避免使人们处于难堪境地，保护私人的情感。在使用有益的和需要的功能的同时，也存在着丑恶的滥用委婉语的现象。这就是人们时常提及的“歁人之谈”或“公众谎言”。总之， 委婉语是社会文化、心理的反映，是随着社会的变化而变化的。 Abstract: In any society, always has the speech which some cannot say straightforwardly. Exchanges in the people in the situation, has quite part of words and expressions to demonstrate is frivolous, vulgar, or at least causes the human embarrassed meaning. In order to avoid mentioning these taboo language or reduces these words and expressions to the human sentiment injury, the people created and have used the euphemism; this also could display one culture the characteristic. In Western society culture life, in many domains, the people use the situation which the euphemism in the situation and the world the majority local people use to be same. But also has the phenomenon which is in sole possession of, this article introduced emphatically in English-speaking country, the people use the euphemism the general knowledge and several special aspects, as well as discussed the people to use these euphemisms the reason. The euphemism is used frequently for to avoid causing the people to be in the embarrassed region, protects the personal emotion. Function beneficial and needs which during the use, also exists ugly abuses the euphemism the phenomenon. This is the people often mentions “discussing of the human” or “the public rumor”. In brief, the euphemism is the: In any society, always has the speech which some cannot say straightforwardly. Exchanges in the people in the situation, has quite part of words and expressions to demonstrate is frivolous, vulgar, or at least causes the human embarrassed meaning. In order to avoid mentioning these taboo language or reduces these words and expressio