The Cultural Differences Between English and Chinese Idioms and Translation

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.220404.118How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English and Chinese; idioms; Cultural differences; translation

Abstract

Due to distinct geography, history, customs and religious beliefs between China and West, English and Chinese idioms are obviously different in the performance, also form obstacles in translation. Through analyzing the cultural differences between English and Chinese idioms and their specific performance, this study provides the corresponding translation strategies, which can help to deal with the obstacles in the translation of English and Chinese idioms and achieve the effect of cross-cultural communication.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ran Wang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/18
TI  - The Cultural Differences Between English and Chinese Idioms and Translation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Creative Industry and Knowledge Economy (CIKE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 610
EP  - 614
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.220404.118
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.220404.118
ID  - Wang2022
ER  -