A Study of English Translation of Medicinal Diets Names Based on the Principle of “Faithfulness, Expressiveness and Elegance”

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10.2991/978-2-38476-289-7_10How to use a DOI?

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Medicinal Diet; “Faithfulness, Expressiveness and Elegance”; English Translation

Abstract

Due to the impact of COVID-19 and the increasing attention paid to health care at home and abroad, medicinal diet has been gaining more and more attention, therefore, it is important to study the English translation of medicinal diet for its international publicity. In order to enrich the methods and strategies that can be applied to the translation of medicinal diet, this study intends to explore the methods and strategies for the English translation of medicinal diet names based on the principle of “faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance”, so that the translation can be accurate, simple and concise, while not losing the characteristics of Chinese medicine, in order to better achieve the international communication of medicinal diet. This study takes representative examples of English translations of medicinal diet names as the object of study. Based on the translation principle of “faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance”, the existing examples of English translations of medicinal diet names are analyzed, and it is found that under the standard of “faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance”, translators adopt different translation methods for different types of medicinal diet names. This study is complementary to the existing studies on the English translation of medicinal diet and has some reference value for the practice of medicinal diet translation.

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AU  - Jiting Zhang
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DA  - 2024/09/28
TI  - A Study of English Translation of Medicinal Diets Names Based on the Principle of “Faithfulness, Expressiveness and Elegance”
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 SSEME workshop on Social Sciences and Education (SSEME-SSE 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 93
SN  - 2352-5398
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