英汉颜色词的翻译On English Color Words and Their Translation into Chinese班级：04级外语学院2班姓名：谢彦仁学号：2004141060英汉颜色词的翻译摘要英汉颜色词是英汉词汇中的一笔财富，它们是色彩与英语语言的结合，既反映了人类对色彩的感知，又体现了英语的独特性。

由于文化内容、文化传统和文化心理的差异，很多英汉颜色词的文化内涵差异较大，这些特定的文化内涵意义是不同民族在不同的环境下铸就而成的，英汉颜色词在两种语言中的意义就有相同和相似之处，也存在很多差异。

在分析差异产生的原因上，提出了克服差异所产生的障碍，对顺利进行跨文化交际和英汉双语翻译有一定的指导意义。

本文对照分析了相当数量的颜色词的翻译实例，总结了译法，阐述了深刻了解颜色词的文化内涵在翻译实践中的重要性，强调在学习英语的过程中了解不同颜色词在英汉两种语言中的文化背景，风格习惯和历史地理背景，旨在促进跨文化交际的顺利进行。

关键词：颜色词习惯用法翻译AbstractEnglish color words are the treasures of English vocabulary,and they are the connection between colors but also embodying English peculiarities.Because of different cultural issues,Cultural and culture psychology.The cultural connotations of the English and Chinese color words differ greatly.As a result these particular cultured connotation meanings are cast under different environments by different nationalities.There are a lot of similarities and differences on themeaning between English and Chinese color words.In analyzing the reason why the overcoming the obstacle resulted from the difference,uhich has certain directive significance in smoothly carrying on cross-cultures communiction and English Chinese bilingual translation.This paper contrasts the translation embodiment to analyze a considerable amount of color words,which has summarized the law of reanslating and explained the importance of deeply understanding of cultural connotation abort color words in translating practice while in dealing with the process of studying English,We should be appropriate to understand different culture backgrounds folkwenls.wstoms, geographical backgrounds and history in both English and Chinese languages,Aiming at promoting the harmony of cross-cultural communicationKey words,color words.habitual wsage.translation1.introduction“Color is a kind of visable quality that objects have,produced by rays of light of different wave lengths being reflected by them”(Oxford 267).It could be found in every corner of human nguage is the symbol systems of more than one kind of levels.In the field of human linguistics,the vocabulary is one of the most direct and concrete factors reflecting the whole nation’s lives.Every word records people’understanding of objective world.As a group of special vocabularycolonies,the color word’s is no execption directly or indirectly bearing the weight of various and colorful connotation of varied nationalities and containing strong national traditions,social local conditions and customs, aesthetics temperament and interest.This paper illustrates a large number of examples and comparatively anulyzes the original meaning of the color words in two different cultures.It fetches illustrations and employs the linguistic context to analyze the literal meaning and culture meaning of the color words in both English and Chinese languages,aiming at confirming the suitable translating method and accurately transmitting information.2.The definition of color wordsColor words,in whatever languages,are words used for describing the colors of different kinds of things.The physiological response that the color cause as human vision has some characteristics in common. Research of scientist indicates that,except color blindness,the visual system of mankind from the perpective of physiological aspect is without any different.Different nationalities have no difference in color esthesia or in the ability to correctly distinguish color.The statistics show that there are more than7million kinds of colors that can be recognized in nature.However,the color names in the language are very limited because there are only dozens of color expressed in single-morpheme word.Besides indicating their specific colors,such as red,yellow,white,black,blue,green,grey,pink and orange and so on.A number of color words are expressed by adding modifiers,for instance,crimson,pale red apple green and so on.The classification of color wordsOn account of natural true quality,the classification of English and Chinese color words and the meaning of words are unanimous on the whole.According to a scientific research,it is undeniable that except color blindness there isn’t any difference in perceiving or telling different culture show no difference in perceiving or telling different.After studying no less than one hundred languages,some scholars make a conclusion that any kind of language existing in the world has a certain amount of color words.Yet,the appellations of color in the language are limited in terms of few basic color words.In consequence,the majority of colors are formed by adding modifiers to basic words,such as apple green,grey blue,deep blue and so on.Linguists Berlin and Kay(1969),who have studied color words for several years,put forward a theory that are eleven basic color words in the world:black,white,red,yellow,green,blue,brown and purple and so on.Meanwhile,there are also a great number of secondary color words, such as golden,silver,ruby,indigo,rosy,beige,fawn,ochre and so on. The quantity of basic color words also reflects the developing stage of the language.There are only two color words in some language in Africa,which indicates that their languages are still at primary stage.At the same time,linguistic groups divide English and Chinese color words into three classifications:basic color words;color words with color of objects;color words in shades.Though some similarities exist when words are used in English and Chinese,there are difference due to both the language and the cultural factors such as history,culture,customs,and traditions.The structures of color wordsNature is a colorful world,in which every material objects have their own special colors different from others.During the process of human’s recognizing nature,they offen decide and recognize the materials with the help of their colors at first,which makes colors become the important peculiarities of materials.Color words are active in both English and Chinese languages,so the structures of color words are various,full of similarities and dissimilarities.The structure of similar color words(ⅰ)Degree adjective＋colore．g．English：deep blue，dark brown，dull white，bright red，light yellow etc。