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英汉语中的词汇空缺及其翻译策略的综述报告.docx

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英汉语中的词汇空缺及其翻译策略的综述报告 Introduction TranslatingbetweenEnglishandChinesecansometimesbechallengingduetovocabularygapsbetweenthetwolanguages.Thesegapscancausedifficultiesinconveyingaccuratemeaningandmakingappropriatetranslations.Inthisreport,wewilldiscussthevocabularygapsinEnglishandChineseandthestrategiesthatcanbeusedtotranslatewordsandphrasesthatlackperfectequivalentsinthetargetlanguage. VocabularyGapsinEnglishandChinese EnglishandChinesearetwovastlydifferentlanguageswithuniquegrammaticalstructuresandsyntax.Thismeansthatmanywordsandphrasesthatexistinonelanguagedonotnecessarilyhaveaperfectequivalentintheotherlanguage.Forexample,theword“Schadenfreude”inGermanhasnodirectequivalentinEnglishorChinese.Similarly,theChineseword“Guānxì”isoftentranslatedas“connections”or“relationships”inEnglish,butthesetranslationsdonotfullyencapsulatethecomplexitiesoftheconcept. ThereareafewreasonswhyvocabularygapsexistbetweenEnglishandChinese.Onereasonisthateachlanguagehasitsownculturalandlinguistichistorythathasinfluencedthedevelopmentofitsvocabulary.Forexample,ChinesehasalonghistoryofConfucianismandTaoism,whichhasledtothecreationofmanywordsrelatedtothesephilosophiesthatdonotexistinEnglish.Ontheotherhand,Englishhasbeeninfluencedbymanyotherlanguages,includingLatin,French,andGerman,whichhasledtothecreationofmanyloanwordsthatdonotexistinChinese. TranslationStrategies Whentranslatingwordsandphrasesthatlackperfectequivalentsinthetargetlanguage,translatorsmustuseavarietyofstrategiestoconveymeaningaccurately.Herearesomeofthestrategiesthatcanbeused: 1.Transliteration:Thisstrategyinvolvesrenderingthewordorphrasefromthesourcelanguageintothetargetlanguageusingitsphoneticequivalent.Forexample,theChineseword“tángguǒ”(糖果)canbetransliteratedintoEnglishas“tangguo”toretaintheoriginalpronunciation. 2.Definition:Thisstrategyinvolvesprovidingadefinitionofthewordorphraseinthetargetlanguagethatcapturesitsmeaning.Forexample,theChineseword“yīnyuè”(音乐)canbetranslatedintoEnglishas“music,”andadefinitionof“theartofsound