On the Translation and Comparison of Color Expressions Between English and Chinese 比较中西方颜色词的表达与翻译

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1、OntheTranslationandComparisonofColorExpressionsBetweenEnglishandChinese比较中西方颜色词的表达与翻译IntroductionThecolorisakindofhumanbeing'saesthesiaintheobjectiveworld(Jianghong,1999).Whateverpossessesinthenatureorinsociallife,variouscolorsexist.Theso-called"beautifulworld"or"colorfullife"p

2、rovesthatpeople'sactuallifeiscloselyrelatedtocolorinwhichpeoplelive.Scientificresearchindicatesthatsevenmillionkindsofcolorscanbefoundintheworld.However,colorexpressionsareonlylimitedtoseveralhundredsinclassification.Thenumberofwordsforexpressingcolorinlanguagesofvariousnationa

3、litiesdiffersanditsclassificationvariesaswell.EnglishandChineseExpressionsonColorscanbecategorizedintothreekinds:Firstly,themajorcolorsinthenaturalworld,suchasred、blue、green、white、purple、gray、brown、blackandsoon;Secondly,colorexpressionsonobjects,whicharecommonlyassociatedwithgo

4、ld、silver、orangeandblue;Thirdly,compoundcolorexpressionswhichcanbefoundthatarerelatedtolead-gray、fish-belly-gray、waxy-yellow、orange-redandothercolors,too.颜色是人在客观世界的一种感觉（江洪，1999年）。无论是在自然或是社会生活中，都存在着各种各样的颜色。所谓的“美好的世界”或“多彩生活”证明了颜色与人类的现实生活是密切相关的。科学研究表明，世界上大约有7百万种颜色，然而其只表现在几百种分类上。各民

5、族表达颜色的词语不同，自然种类也就很多了。英文和中文中，颜色的表达可以分以下三类：首先是生态中的主要颜色，像红色、蓝色、绿色、白色、紫色、灰色、棕色和黑色等等；其次是表现在物体中的颜色，例如金色、银色、橘黄和蓝色；最后复合颜色也可以表现为铅灰色、鱼腹部灰色、蜡黄色、橙红色以及其他颜色。1TranslationofEnglishandChineseExpressionsonColorsManycolorvocabulariesareexpressedbothinEnglishandChinese.However,thecolorexpressionsi

6、nEnglishandChinesehavegreatdifferences.Therefore,theexpressionsoncolorsbetweenthetwolanguagescan'tbebrieflyandequivalentlytranslated.Instead,itneedstobetranslatedspecificallyaccordingtocertainconditionsalongwithaflexibleway.Asaresult,itisurgentforustoavoidmakingwrongtranslation

7、wordbyword.ThetranslationmethodsofdifferentEnglishandChinesecolorexpressionsareasfollows:1.1LiteralTranslationLiteraltranslationmeansthattranslatorsshouldtrytheirbesttokeepthelanguagestyleoftheoriginalwork.Meanwhileitrequiresthetargetlanguagetobesmoothandeasytounderstand.Taketh

8、emajorcolorsasanexample,themeaningsofthemintwolanguage