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Contents Statement ofAuthorship. i paper51.com Acknowledgements. ii 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com Abstract iii paper51.com 摘 要... iv 内容来自www.paper51.com 1. Introduction. 1 copyright paper51.com 2. Numbers and Their Cultural Connotations. 1 http://www.paper51.com 2.1 The Number Three. 2 http://www.paper51.com
2.1.1 Chinese Connotative Meaningsof Numeral Three. 2 copyright paper51.com 2.1.2 English Connotative Meaningsof Numeral Three. 3 paper51.com 2.2 The Number Seven. 4 copyright paper51.com 2.2.1 Chinese Connotative Meaningsof Numeral Seven. 4 paper51.com 2.2.2 English Connotative Meaningsof Numeral Seven. 4 http://www.paper51.com
2.3 Six, Eight and Nine. 5 paper51.com 2.3.1 The Connotative Meanings ofNumeral Six in Chinese and English. 5 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com
2.3.2 The Connotative Meanings ofNumeral Eight in Chinese and English. 6 http://www.paper51.com
2.3.3 The Connotative Meanings ofNumeral Nine in Chinese and English. 7 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com
2.4 Four and Thirteen. 8 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 2.4.1 Connotative Meanings ofNumeral Four 8 copyright paper51.com 2.4.2 Connotative Meanings ofNumeral Thirteen. 8 内容来自www.paper51.com 3. Methods of Translation. 9 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 3.1 Literal Translation. 9 copyright paper51.com 3.1.1 Word–for–word Translation. 9 http://www.paper51.com 3.1.2 Literal Meaning PlusExplanation. 10 http://www.paper51.com
3.2 Free Translation. 10 http://www.paper51.com
3.2.1Meaning Translation. 11 http://www.paper51.com 3.2.2 The Technique of Substitution. 12 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 3.2.3Change the Numerals. 13 内容来自www.paper51.com 4. Conclusion. 14 copyright paper51.com References copyright paper51.com
1. Introduction http://www.paper51.com
Numeralsbelong to a part of language and play an important part in the life. “Culture,in a broad sense, means the total way of life of a people including thepatterns of belief, customs, objects, institutions, techniques, and languagethat characterizes the life of the human community.”(Wang Zhengya, 2001) Numbers are used widely inour daily life. Without numbers, nothing can get along well in the world. Owingto influence of the national psychology, religious beliefs, worship oflanguages and other cultural distinctions between China and western countries, numeralsare endowed with abundant cultural connotations. Many mysterious and powerfulnumerals in English and Chinese are used to represent “lucky” words in onelanguage, while “unlucky”, even taboo words in another language. For instance,Chinese people adore numeral eight (发) (making money) in theirlife, while four (si) sounds like (死) represents “unlucky”. Thispaper discusses the cultural connotations in English and Chinese numerals byanalyzing some typical numbers. And therefore the paper generalizes some commonlyused translating skills. Translationdoes not just mean the change of symbols into another language, but it is aprocess of information substitution. For example, 九死一生(anarrow escape from death). However, translation involves many factors, such as culturaldifferences. As a translator, the task is totranslate the information he or she receives into symbols that he or she will expresses. 内容来自www.paper51.com
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