谋事在人，成事在天。 犹大之吻(口蜜腹剑) 唯一致命的弱点 (希腊神话) 比喻被人当作工具来使用， 或受人愚弄的人，不能翻译 成猫的爪子(《伊索寓言》) 进退维谷(《荷马史诗》) 潘多拉的盒子，指无穷的灾 难
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Culture differences caused by Religious beliefs and historical allusions
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1.今天, 无论你怎样出洋相, 都不算过分. 2.这项发明的价值无论怎样估计也不会太高.
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Culture differences caused by Thinking ways
Westerners Preferring abstractness （抽象思维） Thinking in linear way （直线思维） Frequently using complicated sentences Differentiating subject and object strictly Hypotaxis (形合） Chinese Preferring imagination （形象思维） Thinking in circular way （曲线思维） Perferring simple sentences Implicit subject and object Parataxis (意合)
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Culture differences caused by Thinking ways complicated sentences vs simple sentences e.g. Translation is an art, which distinguishes good from undistinguished writing and is the creative, the intuitive, sometimes the inspired, level of the translation. Translation： 翻译是一门艺术，它识优辨劣，是一种创造性 的、凭直觉的，有时是闪烁灵感的翻译。
Culture Differences (English vs Chinese) ＆Translation Strategies 中西文化差异与翻译策略
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1. How many winter days have I seen him, standing blue—nosed in the snow and Shelley – Ode to the West Wind east wind!‖ (Charles Dickens David “古道西风瘦马，夕阳西下，断肠人在天涯。 ” Copperfield () 马致远《天净沙· 秋思 》 ) “醉乡中，东风唤醒梨花梦” – 马致远 2. ―But wind’s changing round‖, said the “咸阳古道音尘绝，音尘绝，西风残照，汉家陵阙。 ” man, ―look at the smoke of that tug – easterly ( 李白《忆秦娥》 – we’ll have blue sky and red )noses tomorrow.‖
胆小如鼠 鼠目寸光 鸡皮疙瘩 蛛丝马迹 像猴子一样聪 明 拦路虎 拍马屁 棋逢对手
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Culture difference caused by Folk customs More examples:
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have one foot in the grave to grow like mushrooms as easy as A B C a piece of cake a lucky dog To kill two birds with one stone In the land of the blind,the one-eyed man is the king
1. The re is more of Sampson than of Solomon in him 2. Cast Pearls before Swine 3. You are just a doubting Thomas. You won’ t believe what I tell you. 4. Being a teacher is being present at the creation, when the clay beings begin to breathe. Translation: 1.他四肢发达,头脑简单。 2.对牛弹琴 3.你这个人真多疑, 我说什么你都不信。 4.老师是创造的见证人, 目睹生命呼吸成长。
1. 人们长期以来坚持认为，艾略特对原 始文化的兴趣是他在哈佛读研究生的 岁月里培养起来的。
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Culture differences caused by Thinking ways hypotaxis （形合） vs parataxis （意合） e.g. 1. I can’t trust him, because he is not honest. 2. The monks may run away, but the temple cannot run away. 3. If you are dead, I will be a monk. Translation： 1.他不老实，我不能信任他。 2.跑了和尚，跑不了庙。 3.你死了， 我就做和尚。（《红楼梦》）
力大如牛 吹牛 老黄牛 趾高气昂 并驾齐驱
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Culture difference caused by Folk customs More examples:
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as timid as a rabbit as blind as a bat goose flesh something fishy as wise as an owl a lion in the way lick one’s boots Diamond cuts diamond
farewell to those who would lose their youth, and some of them their lives, before the leaves turned again in a peace time fall.
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那是个天气晴朗、金黄可爱的秋天， 那是个天气晴朗、金黄可爱的秋天， 动人的秋色为那些青年们送别。待 对于那些在和平时期的秋天树叶再度 到站后和平时期，黄叶纷飞的秋天 转黄之前将要失去青春、有的要失去 再度来临时，当日的青年已经失去 生命的人们是一个动人的送别。 了青春，有的失去了生命。
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Culture difference caused by Geographical environments More examples:
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spend money like water drink like fish to teach a fish to swim a big fish in a small pond all at sea hang in the wind three sheets in the wind all hands to the pumps in the same boat
挥金如土 牛饮 班门弄斧 ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ地方中的大人物或 矮个子中的高个子 ……
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Translate the phrases：
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as strong as a horse talk horse a willing horse get on one’s high horse horse and horse
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translate the follows:
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Man proposes,God disposes. a Judas kiss Achilles' heel cat's paw between Scylla and Charybdis Pandora's box
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Culture differences caused by Thinking ways imagination vs abstractness 胸有成竹 开门见山 桃李满天下 锅碗瓢盆
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Translation： to have a well-thought-out plan\ to have a ready plan in mind; to come straight to the point; One’s pupils or disciples are all overthe world; cooking utensils
风烛残年 雨后春笋 易如反掌 小菜一碟 幸运儿 一箭双雕 山中无老虎，猴子 称大王。
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Translate these:
1. Nobody could be too foolish this day. 2. It is impossible to overestimate the value of the invention.
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Culture differences caused by Thinking ways