中国古代传统文化翻译-中国特色词汇英语翻译元宵节：Lantern Festival刺绣：embroidery重阳节：Double-Ninth Festival清明节：Tomb sweeping day剪纸：Paper Cutting书法：Calligraphy对联：(Spring Festival) Couplets象形文字：Pictograms/Pictographic Characters人才流动：Brain Drain/Brain Flow四合院：Siheyuan/Quadrangle战国：Warring States风水：Fengshui/Geomantic Omen铁饭碗：Iron Bowl函授部：The Correspondence Department集体舞：Group Dance黄土高原：Loess Plateau红白喜事：Weddings and Funerals中秋节：Mid-Autumn Day结婚证：Marriage Certificate儒家文化：Confucian Culture附属学校：Affiliated school古装片：Costume Drama武打片：Chinese Swordplay Movie元宵：Tangyuan/Sweet Rice Dumpling一国两制：One Country, Two Systems火锅：Hot Pot四人帮：Gang of Four《诗经》：The Book of Songs素质教育：Essential-qualities-oriented Education《史记》：Historical Records/Records of the Grand Historian大跃进：Great Leap Forward (Movement)《西游记》：The Journey to the West除夕：Chinese New Year’s Eve/Eve of the Spring Festival针灸：Acupuncture唐三彩：Tri-color Pottery of the Tang Dynasty/ The Tang Tri-colored pottery中国特色的社会主义：Chinese-charactered Socialist/Socialist with Chinese characteristics 偏旁：radical孟子：Mencius亭/阁：Pavilion/ Attic大中型国有企业：Large and Medium-sized State-owned Enterprises火药：gunpowder农历：Lunar Calendar印/玺：Seal/Stamp物质精神文明建设：The Construction of Material Civilization and Spiritual Civilization 京剧：Beijing Opera/Peking Opera秦腔：Crying of Qin People/Qin Opera太极拳：Tai Chi独生子女证：The Certificate of One-child天坛：Altar of Heaven in Beijing小吃摊：Snack Bar/Snack Stand红双喜：Double Happiness政治辅导员：Political Counselor/School Counselor春卷：Spring Roll(s)莲藕：Lotus Root追星族：Star Struck故宫博物院：The Palace Museum相声：Cross-talk/Comic Dialogue下岗：Lay off/Laid off北京烤鸭：Beijing Roast Duck高等自学考试：Self-taught Examination of Higher Education烟花爆竹：fireworks and firecracker敦煌莫高窟：Mogao Caves电视小品：TV Sketch/TV Skit香港澳门同胞：Compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao文化大革命：Cultural Revolution长江中下游地区：The Mid-low Reaches of Yangtze River门当户对：Perfect Match/Exact Match《水浒》：Water Margin/Outlaws of the Marsh中外合资企业：Joint Ventures文房四宝（笔墨纸砚）："The Four Treasure of the Study" "Brush, Inkstick, Paper, and Inkstone"1、中国意念词（Chinesenesses）八卦trigram阴、阳yin, yang道Dao（cf. logo）江湖（世界）the jianghu World （the traits’ world）e.g. You can’t control everything in a traits’ world. (人在江湖，身不由己)道Daoism（Taoism）上火excessive internal heat儒学Confucianism红学（《红楼梦》研究）redology世外桃源Shangri-la or Arcadia开放kaifang （Chinese openness to the outside world）大锅饭getting an equal share regardless of the work done伤痕文学scar literature or the literature of the wounded不搞一刀切no imposing uniformity on …合乎国情，顺乎民意to conform with the national conditions and the will of the people 乱摊派，乱收费imposition of arbitrary quotas and service charge铁交椅iron (lifetime) post’s; guaranteed leading post脱贫to shake off poverty; anti-poverty治则兴，乱则衰Order leads to prosperity and chaos to decline2 、中华民族的喜庆节日（Chinese Festivial）国庆节National Day中秋节Mia-Autumn Festival春节Spring Festival元宵节Lantern Festival儿童节Children’s Day端午节Dragon Boat Festival妇女节Women’s Day泼水节Water-Splashing Day五四青年节Youth Day3、中国独特的传统饮食（Unique Traditional Chinese Foods）馄饨wonton花卷steamed twisted rolls套餐set meal盒饭box lunch; Chinese take-away米豆腐rice tofu魔芋豆腐konjak tofu米粉rice noodles冰糖葫芦a stick of sugar-coated haws (or apples,etc.)粉丝glass noodles豆腐脑jellied bean curd4 、中国新兴事物（Newly Sprouted Things）中国电信China Telecom中国移动China Mobile十五计划the 10th Five-Year Plan中国电脑联网Chinanet三峡工程the Three Gorges Project希望工程Project Hope京九铁路Beijing CKowloon Railway扶贫工程Anti-Poverty Project菜篮子工程Vegetable Basket Project温饱工程Decent-Life Project安居工程Economy Housing Project扫黄Porn-Purging Campaign西部大开发Go-West Campaign5 、特有的一些汉语词汇禅宗Zen Buddhism禅dhyana; dhgaya混沌chaos道Daosim, the way and its power四谛Four Noble Truth八正道Eightfold Path无常anity五行说Theory of Five Elements无我anatman坐禅metta or transcendental meditation空sunyata虚无nothingness双喜double happiness(中)，a doubled stroke of luck(英) 小品witty skits相声cross-talk噱头；掉包袱gimmick, stunt夜猫子night people; night-owls本命年this animal year of sb.处世之道philosophy of life姻缘yinyuan（prefixed fate of marriage）还愿redeem a wish (vows)。