On the Translation and Comparison of Color Expressions between English and Chinese 对比中西方颜色词的表达与翻译.doc

On the Translation and Comparison of Color Expressions between English and Chinese 对比中西方颜色词的表达与翻译 Abstract: Scientific research indicates that seven million kinds of colors can be found in the world. However, color expressions are only limited to several hundreds in classification. Peoples actual life is closely related to color. There are many color expressions, which reflect different culture psychologies and emotional colorings both in Chinese and English. Color is a kind of visual effect. Because the mankind has the same physiological mechanism and vision nerve, the color words are no different in essence, theoretically. However, because of various language culture, historical background, religious belief, mode of thinking, aesthetic temperament and interest, etc. in different nationality, peoples impression of color and expression are different, and the associative meaning produced by the color has nothing in common with each other. There are different and various color words and expressions in English and Chinese. Sometimes it is difficult to find equivalent expression in one language. This brings a great obstacle with translators. Translation must be done in a flexible way. Keywords: translation, comparison, color, English, Chinese, different Content 1 Introduction 2 Comparison of English and Chinese Expressions on Colors 2.1 The Relation between Color and Social Cultural Ideology 2.2 Metaphorical meaning of English and Chinese Color Expressions 2.3 Different Expressions of people’s feeling and association 3 Translation of English and Chinese Expressions on Colors 3.1 Literal Translation 3.2 Free Translation 3.3 Dynamic Equivalence Translation 3.4 Borrowed Translation 3.5 Amplified Translation 3.6 Selection and Translation According to the Match 4 Conclusion Reference 1. Introduction The color is a kind of human beings aesthesia in the objective world. Various colors exist in the nature or in social life. The so-called beautiful world or colorful lif