摘　要

数字与人类生活密切相关。人们通过数字进行计时，计价等等。它在人类文化交流与发展中起着重要的作用，反映着鲜明的民族文化特色。关于数字以及数字文化前人已进行了许多研究，如:数字谚语研究，数字习语比较研究，数字模糊性等等。本文主要介绍了语言与文化的概念、关系，英汉数字用语的类型及特点，以及英汉数字在不同民族心理、神话、宗教中的文化内涵。通过对英汉数字用语进行对比分析，探究不同的民族心理和文化背景，通过对比分析中西文化差异，更深刻地理解人类语言和思维中最内在的本质。这不但有利于我们更深层次地了解中西文化在数字文化差异中的表现形式，而且有助于推动翻译学和跨文化交流的研究。

关键字：数字翻译；文化差异；文化交流

Abstract

Numbers are closely related to our life. We cannot measure time, price, etc. without numbers. Numerical culture plays an important role in the development and communication of human culture and reflects distinctive cultural style of nationalities. The research concerning numbers has been made by many scholars such as the study of numerical proverbs, the study of numerical idioms, the vagueness of numbers, etc. The paper attempts to translate and analyze numbers between English and Chinese from the standpoint of culture in order to explore the effect of numbers on cross-cultural communication. The paper mainly introduces the relationship between language and culture, the types of numerical expressions in language and semantic features in Chinese and English to realize the different cultural connotations in different nationalities and background by making a comparison of numerical expressions between English and Chinese. Such kind of comparison can be of importance not only in understanding the meanings of such expressions, but also in translation and the cross-cultural communication.

Key words: numerical translation; cultural differences; cultural communication

1 Introduction
   Like the ubiquitous air, numbers penetrate into every aspect of human life. Before entering the realm of numbers, it is necessary to discuss what a number is. Numbers were created from the interaction of human’s cultural and social behavior with their ability to conceptualize. A number is the abstract concept that can be expressed as well by the word or symbol. Numerals are nothing but signs with which one can easily represent those concepts called “numbers”, being Roman, Arabic, Chinese or anything else. In common language and communication, however, the word “number” is typically used interchangeably with the word “numeral”. A study of numbers can not be done without the knowledge of numbers and numeration.