... 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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