Abstract and Key Words

Abstract: This thesis introduces distinctive features of both English and Chinese idioms and their important roles in society, culture and communication in details. This is a study of the mistranslations of both English and Chinese idioms caused by the different context. In that occasion, the author carries out further study of the translation techniques and offers new ideas and suggestions by reading and learning the translation theories of all distinguished translators, collecting and gathering the classic idiom translations, sorting and summarizing the translation techniques. The aim of this thesis is to help people better understand the English and Chinese idioms and have an effective cross-culture communication, as well as being a useful guideline in foreign language teaching, interpretation and other applied language disciplines.

Key words: contextualism; idioms; translation techniques

摘要：本文详细介绍了英汉成语各自的特色和在社会、文化、交际中的重要性，主要研究了英汉成语由于语言语境的不同而导致的错译误译，在此基础上，通过博览名家翻译理论，收集英汉成语互译经典例子，归纳整理了成语翻译的技巧，为进一步研究英汉成语互译的技巧提供新的思路和建议，旨在帮助人们更好地理解中英成语，有效地进行跨文化交流，并在对外语教学、翻译和其它应用语言学科方面具有积极的指导意义。

关键词：语境理论；成语；翻译技巧

1. Introduction
This thesis is composed of five parts with the first one giving a brief explanation of the choice of the research topic and the outline of the whole thesis. Part two offers a literature review that provides the theoretical support in this thesis. And in this part, the author also introduces the basic details of basic knowledge, like definitions, features and resources. Part three reports and introduces the difficulties in the translation. The author points out the importance of the context in the translation work. For translators, context is always on top of the most concerned issues. Only translation versions which fit in the context can be called the appropriate and good ones. Then comes part four that presents three different techniques in dealing with the translation of English and Chinese idioms, which are literal translation, liberal translation and borrowed method from synonymy idioms. And there are also differences in every technique. In this part, examples are also illustrated for better understanding. In the author’s point, literal translation and liberal translation are two related concepts with their respective limitations. During the translation process, there is no absolute literal translation and liberal translation. It is absurd to over emphasize either of them. Hence translators have to be flexible according to different situations.