Week 12 翻译中的文化因素

1、翻译中的文化因素1 1.瞧，你的脸白的像张纸 Look, your face is white as a sheet.Look your face is so paleYour face is as pale as a sheet of paper.Look, your face is white as a piece of paper22.做中人的卫老婆子带她进来了，头上扎着白头绳The introducer Madam Wei brought her in, and she wore a white strip on her head.The introducer Madam Wei br

2、ought her in ,and she wore a white strip on the hairThe girl, with a white string on her hair, was brought into the room by the old lady Wei, the go-between.The old biddy Wei, who is mediator, brought her in, with a white cord round her hair33.她从表姐家出来后就去了堂姐家she came out from her cousins house and th

3、en went to another cousins She went to her cousin- in law home after getting out from her cousins house.She went to another cousins home after going out from a cousins home.She went to her paternal cousins family after she left her maternal cousins family.44.她是个林黛玉式的人物she is a girl of Lindaiyu style

4、She is a sentimental personShe is just as weak as lin daiyu.She is very sentimental55.甲：你做的菜真好吃！ 乙：哪里，哪里，几个家常小菜而已。 your cooking is really good. Just so so. They are just some home cooking.Your cooking skill is very good! I am flattered its just some little family courses.How delicious food youve mad

5、e is!Thank you for your praise6对不起，我太不小心了（以至于把茶杯打碎了）没关系，碎碎（岁岁）平安嘛！sorry, I am so careless that i broke the teacup into pieces.It doesnt matter.it sounds like being sound and safe every year.-I am sorry , Im so careless that have broken the cup.-Thats alright, the broke is the fortune in the future.7

6、I am sorry to break up the cup.It does not matter. It means peace all year round.Sorry, excuse me for my carelessness having broken up the cupThats alright, as Chinese saying goes “piece leads to peace”8 男男女女都七嘴八舌地说出他们的惦记和盼念with seven mouths and eight tongues, they were all talking and tried to tell

7、 how much they missed her.With seven mouths and eight tongues ,these people expressed their miss.Both men and women express their concern and miss eagerly.Every man and woman gabbles his or her worries and longings9游泳池里人太多，简直像芝麻酱煮饺子There are so many people in the swimming pool, which looks like boil

8、ing dumplings with sesame paste.Its so crowded in the swimming pool that it packed like sardines There are so many people in the swimming pool. It was packed like sardines.10腊八粥1.农历十二月初八名为腊八节。腊八节是年节的前奏曲，华北民谣唱的好：“老婆老婆你莫馋，过了腊八就是年”。腊八过了就意味着进入年节阶段。腊八这天人们要吃应节令的腊八粥，因此又有“报信儿的腊八粥”之说。11 Laba PorridgeThe eigh

9、th day of the twelfth lunar month is called Laba Festival, which is the prelude of the Spring Festival holidays. The North China folk sings well:“Dont admire, my darling. It will be the Spring Festival after Laba Festival.”It means we will enter into the Spring Festival stages after Laba Festival. P

10、eople will eat seasonal Laba Porridge on Laba Festival, and there is another saying:Laba Porridge can delivery a message.Laba congeeThe lunar December 8 is the Laba Festival. It is the prelude of the Spring Festival as a folk said that:” my wife ,dont be greedy, the Spring Festival is just after the

11、 Laba Festival.”. with the passage of the Laba Festival , the Spring Festival is coming. In the day of the Laba Festival people should eat the seasonal Laba congee , so that there is a word that “ the informative laba congee.”12 Laba congeeDecember eighth in the lunar calendar is called the laba fes

12、tival. It is the prelude of the Spring Festival. There is a folk song in north China, which says “honey, do not be so gluttonous. The Spring Festival is right after the laba festival. ” After the laba festival, Chinese begin to prepare for the coming Chinese new year. That day, people eat the rice p

13、orridge with nuts and dried fruit which fits the season well. So there is a saying that the laba congee represents the coming new year. Laba porridgeThe eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, called “Laba”, is a precursory episode of the Spring Festival. As a fold ballad in northern China goes “my d

14、ear wife dont be gluttonous, because the Spring Festivsl is soon to come after Laba”. The passage of Laba means the coming of Spring Festival. People would like to eat the seasonal food “Laba porridge” on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, so the Laba porridge is also called “messenger porri

15、dge”.13 (王熙凤)因笑道：“天下真有这样标致人儿！我今日才算看见了！况且这通身的气派竟不像老祖宗的外孙女儿，竟是嫡亲的孙女儿似的，怨不得老祖宗天天嘴里心里放不下。-只可怜我这妹妹这么命苦，怎么姑妈偏就去世了呢！”（红楼梦第三回）14(Wang Xifeng)said in smile :”Could there be such a beautiful girl? I havent seen that until today! Besides , as she has such a temperament ,she is not like the there is no wonder t

16、he grandmother mentions her everyday . how could my poor sister lose her mother She laughs and says: I have never seen a beautiful girl like her before. We are all impressed by her elegance, just like her grandmother. And I understand why our grandmother treated her as the apple of eye. I am so sad

17、and sorry that our aunt passed away and left our cousin alone in the world. (Wang xifeng) smiled and said “ she is so beautiful that I cannot believe in my eyes. I know the reason why Grannie has missed you from the bottom of heart in the past few days, and that is because you are such a beauty that it makes me believe you dont take after the paternal side, but you are more like a Jiabut poor little thing, what a cruel fate to you for lost you r mother. 15“Well”, she cried with a laugh, “this is the first time Ive seen such a ravishing beauty. Her whole air is so