The Interpretation And Translation Of Cultural Meaning

AbstractTranslation is an activity of representing, in one language, what isexpressed in another 1anguage. It requires the equivalent transfOrmhion ofinformation cdried by language units of both languages so as to represeIltto the maximum in the target language the infOrmation in the sourcelanguage. The key to fulfill this task of transfOrmation of information is theperfect transformation of meaning, as says Eugene Nida, a famousAinerican translation theorist, "Translating means translating meaning." Inthe process of translation, language is the only carrier of cultUral meaning.There ..iath differences and similarities between source language andtarget language, caused by those of the two different cultures. All thelanguage obstacles and cultUral gaPs are resulted by the difference betweencultures. Therefore, cult'UIal meaning always plays an extremely importamrole in the course of translation.The dissertation briefly touches upon the cu1ture from the perspectiveof translation first, and puts forward the concept of "microcosmic culturalmeAnng", t'hich is regarded as the main study object in the dissertation. Iexpound three aspects of translating cultWal meaning: its main forms of.expression; the way of proof seeking of accurate cultUral meaning; and thetechniques of translation. The object of the dissertation is to solve theproblem in translating cultUIal meaning, so as to guide the practice oftranslation.1l...