... out that, due to the differences in geographical environments, historical developments, social systems, religious beliefs and customs and traditions, there are existent unique elements in Chinese and English. Then some methods are put forward to their translation. Introduction Edward Burnett Tylor, a British social anthropologist, said in his Primitive Culture (1871), "Culture is a kind of complexity. It includes knowledge, belief, art, ... obstacle in understanding the foreign language. Due to linguistic and cultural diversity, exact equivalence is no easy to achieve, especially in the...

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... end of the self-strengthening movement there were already in place two naval arsenals, a foreign office, and a translation school concerned with both linguistics and Western curriculum. The Chinese looked on these accomplishments as a restoration of a more effective and moral Chinese state. By the 1890's the products of the self strengthening movement appeared to be insufficient. The convoluted bureaucracy of ... This national embarrassment along with the continued incursion of Western influences led many scholars to believe that a deeper problem existed, and its solution necessitated a...

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... reader towards him; or he leaves the reader in peace, as much as possible, and moves the author towards him"(Venuti, 1995: 19-20). The famous Chinese writer Lu Xun also said that "Before translation, the translator has to make a decision: either to adapt the original text or to retain as much as possible the foreign flavour of the original text" ... Are source language culture specific expressions replaced purely and simply or are they more often than not retained in Chinese translations? My investigation shows neither. From the above examples of idiom translation and analysis, we can s...

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... direct understanding of the material. The result also shows that its unpractical and unfair to ask all the students to give up the translation process, which gives them great help in listening comprehension. In the students mind, English and Chinese usually work together in order to catch the meaning of the material. In table 2, the most outstanding feature is that 67.1% students ... make much progress if he/she doesnt do any exercises after class. In addition, 46.3% students hold the opinion that the influence of Chinese is very great. The attitude toward Chinese influence and the meth...

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... lots of names of disease were named by English, if she needed to check it, she had to search the English name not the Chinese translation because translation could not help her find the important information. The other area that uses English so often is computer. Because my major is computer ... There are lots of ways to create the China English. First is by transliteration, like RMB (Renminbi means Chinese money), Maotai, Putonghua (standard Chinese) and etc. Second is by Loan translation or calque, like the Spring Festival, One China policy, Beijing opera and etc. Because the China En...

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... . When I met the sentence "And I knew we were doomed." (ÎÖ ª µÎaÇ× • ¶ã' ªÊ ÜÁ), I thought that the word "doom" means "dead". Without looking up the dictionary, I made a wrong translation. Another example of the importance of using dictionary is "I had the desperate idea that"(ÎÐÁ'Õ µÄÄÍ). At first, I thought that "desperate" means " ¾Ã¸Ãû µÄ". But I ignored another meaning ... that still need to be improved. I should learn some more skills and avoid some habit of translating English into Chinese, such as to avoid using too much " µa µÄ µ " or ...

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Bilingual ballots are not needed by numerous people. Why squander millions of taxpayer's dollars for ballots to be translated with a high possibility of translation errors? Who knows why? The focal ground in stopping bilingual ballot production is that they are unneeded. To become apart of the constituency you must be an American citizen. While ... positions of the candidates, how can they know who to vote for? Chances are that the translation doesn't come out to great either. In New York City's 1993 Chinese ballot erroneously printed the Chinese character for no as a translation for yes. Bu...

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... include all marketing information regarding each hotel to allow for an informed buying decision by the customer. Required language translations included Spanish, German, Italian, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean. Updating hotel content by a hotel owner or manager occurs frequently to promote changes to the physical plant, promotion of special events and varied consumer offerings. ... to each affiliate office for review of accuracy. The results were outstanding. Affiliate offices provided positive feedback on the accuracy of the translation, time-tomarket was reduced subst...

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... (www.economist.com/countries/germany/). Germany is a member of the EU, GATT, WTO, UN and NATO, ensuring the stability of government. China China adopts in One-party rule by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Resent inclusion in the WTO proves that governmental stability and its dedication to ensuring that China continues to increase its participation in international business. Chile Chile applies ... 13.5%). Canada has a close cooperation on a range of issues with New Zealand for trade liberalisation, including GATT, and Common Wealth arrangements (special benefits with tariffs). Exchan...

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... will demonstrate how a complete ideologically divided country will unify beneath one guiding force- Mao Zedong. Also identifying to what extent was Mao's leadership directly correlated to the victory of the Chinese Communist party. Initial Communist Survival The first united front, once a glimmer of hope in China was now slowly dissipating within contrasting ideologies, and is historically labeled as a "friendship of ... Chiang's forced entrance. The picture shows Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek with his hand over a civilian's face- pushing him backwards. This is a representation of ...

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... one language to another; but, equally obviously, they do not all inhabit a world exactly the same in all particulars, and translation is not merely a matter of substituting different but equivalent labels for the contents of the same inventory. From this stem the notorious difficulties in ... translation, especially when the systematizations of science, law, morals, social structure, and so on are involved. The extent of the interdependence of ... be used in a different way; this is an additional difficulty to be overcome in learning to speak and understand a foreign language. In Chines...

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... the Oakland, California school board: "In Oakland's majority-Black school districts, Blacks have a combined grade-point average of 1.8 on a scale of 4.0, compared with 2.12 for Whites and more than 3.0 for Chinese students. Blacks also accounted for far more than their share of students who flunked a grade, skipped school, or required remedial classes, and nearly one-fifth of the black 12th graders ... sentence positive. Smitherman's example is, "Don't nobody don't know God can't tell me nothin"." 3. The use of "to be" to suggest repetition. "The coffee be cold." Translation: the coffee...

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... were most salient in those cultures in Hofstede's cultural model. Cheng(1994) paid attention to the cultural content of advertising in China. Cheng and Schweitzer(1996) argued that Chinese advertising was more symbolic, and that there was an assimilation of Eastern and western cultural values in commercials. Although these studies represented only a small proportion of the total, ... . I will design the case study and prepare the questions on the basis of my research framework. The questions include: 1) Chinese perceptions of the brand name, logo, slogan, and the Chinese translation 2) ...

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... and development. Through the eyes of the daughters, there is the continuation of the mothers' stories and how they lived in America. The Chinese-American daughters try their best to become "Americanized," at the same time showing off their heritage while their mothers watch on, dismayed. The ... She compares her loss of faith in love to her mother's loss of faith in God. The third section is ironically named American Translation because when the mothers give advice regarding their daughters' problems, the daughters either take the advice to mean something other than the mothers ... the...

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... known in the PRC (People's Republic of China) as a "heavy metal band with a splash of China. " Tang Dynasty had a high sense of Chinese pride and was a symbol of native masculinity, and thus wanted to further exemplify it through their heavy metal music band. The band identified itself with the wen ... between keeping old classical values as well as incorporating new and contemporary ideas. Heavy metal in China began in the early 1980's, where young chinese musicians and artists met foreign students in Beijing. The interest grew and more and more bands began to pop up in Beijing. The ba...

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... Jonathan D. Spence in the 1970s has given English-speaking people a chance to understand what went on in the mind of such a long-ruling Chinese emperor. His book, Emperor of China, is often difficult to decipher when readers have to decide why he chose certain passages over others; yet Spence ... ability aroused confidence in his people; he also cared, arguably more than any other in history, about the people in his enormous empire. Spence's translation as a self-portrait of K"ang-hsi also shows how the emperor desired to be pure and to always seek improvement in all areas of life. ... ...

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... the negative effects of the emphasis on economic growth," (Orthmann 2009: 27). Singapore is made up of people of various ethnicities-mostly people of Chinese and Malaysian decent. Singapore's name is derived from the Sanskrit word, "Singapura," which means "Lion City," (Wikipedia). Its ... . Singapore's food culture is a fusion of cuisines from all around the world. "From Malay food to Japanese cuisine, Western fast food to typical Chinese restaurants, [Singapore] has a good mix of delicacies to pick from," (Wikipedia). In this country, "Have you eaten?" is a form ... anything you eat in...

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... perceived her mother as a result of harsh attitudes others displayed against her. Tan knew her mother could express herself very well in her native tongue, but was ashamed of her translation of it. Although, she saw her mother's intelligence, she let the bias reaction of others make her ashamed. Tan falls prey to the prejudicial attitudes around her for many reasons ... drop anything that associates her with her "ol! d" culture, and become fully American. This involves her looking down upon her mother because she still carries a very heavy Chinese accent that is part of Tan's Chinese he...

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... characterised by economic growth, and the greed, nepotism, cronyism and corruption that will always embrace unchecked power. One notable legacy of this time was the commercial partnerships Soeharto built with Chinese businessmen; this was to provide a focus for the violence when this period of stability eventually ran its course. Soeharto became a victim of a partnership consisting of the Asian economic ... collapse and his own blind arrogance/stupidity. In 1997 he won another rigged election and even placed his own daughter in a ministerial post. Mass riots ensued, the Chinese were tar...

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... are as complex and emotional as any relationship could ever be. What the film attempts to show us is that the mothers are Chinese and their daughters are Chinese-American and face a set of problems, that although may seem different than a Caucasian mother-daughter relationship really are not beyond the ... time relating to their daughters, there is not only a generational gap: June Woo " I talked to her in English and she answered back in Chinese" There is also a translation gap: June Woo "We translated each others meanings and I seemed to hear less, while my mother heard more" And cultu...

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... were two philosophers of two very different and distinct backgrounds. Confucius' ideas were spawned as a result of his immersion and presence in the ancient Chinese culture while Aristotle's ideas were as a result of his immersion and presence in the ancient Greek culture. In spite of this, however, both ... due in large part to the manner and practice of ancient China, in which many subjects spoken of circumspectly and secondarily. As a result of the translation from Chinese to English, did not directly come out and state his perspective on ethical practices was, exactly what he felt vi...

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... with one comparable Roman) and four single biographies; some 19 short comparisons affixed to the lives are of doubtful authenticity. The English translation by Sir Thomas North had a profound effect upon English literature; it supplied, for example, the material for Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony ... and Cleopatra, and Timon of Athens. A translation by John Dryden was revised by A. H. Clough in 1864. Although Plutarch displays evident pride in the culture and greatness of the men of ... to stint the praise," which she was happy to do if a little humble pie would secure...

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... , the Unmanifest ONE. "Te" is the Manifestation of Tao in the objective world-process. "Ching" means simply "classic" or "canon." The complete work "Tao-Te Ching" consists of about 5,000 Chinese characters, contained in 81 short chapters, divided into two sections. In its original form it possesses a peculiar and distinctive charm, a rhythm of its own, which cannot be reproduced by a literal ... translation into English. It is only possible to catch glimpses of this spirit - this rhythm of life - by reflection on the words which veil and yet at the same time partially ... of Westerners...

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... as the Khuddaka Nikaya. There are a number of closely related Mahayana works. The Fa Chu Ching, would appear to be a direct, Chinese translation of the Dhammapada. It's believed that the Buddha lived from 563 to 483 B.C. in India. He started out life as Prince Gotamma, ... Bodhidharma transmitted the patriarchship of his lineage to Hui-k'o, and soon afterwards, Bodhidharma died in 528. A few years after his death, a Chinese official reported encountering Bodhidharma in the mountains of Central Asia. Bodhidharma was reportedly carrying a staff from which hung a single sandal, and he ... ...

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... man and was the title for famous men in ancient China. Hence, Sun Wu became Sun Tzu. Sun Wu, who was a native of Qi (a Chinese province near Beijing I think youve been there), caught King He Lu's attention with his profound knowledge on military theory. The curious king appointed him to ... application of Sun Tzu's theories to the improvement of management and corporate strategy. In the second half of the 18th century, the first French translation of Sun Tzu's Art of War appeared in Paris. Since then Sun Tzu's works have been studied and appreciated by economics experts, military leaders...

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