Abstract

Translation is an essential part to the communication between Chinese culture signs and the foreign ones. As translators, we should storage the culture elements contained in specific cultural contexts when translating Chinese culture into English appropriately and perfectly. The following essay firstly expatiates on the concepts of textual coherence and cohesion, cultural context, culture and translation. The essay presents a classification of some representational Chinese cultural signs and the corresponding translations. After that, it explains kinds of translating strategies in detail, which mainly fall into three categories. They are literal translation, free translation and annotation.

KEYWORDS:translation; culture signs; coherence; strategies

摘  要

翻译对中西方文化的传播与交流起着至关重要的作用。作为译者，将中国文化符号翻译成英语时，应该尽量减少其相应文化成分的流失，尽善尽美地列举中国文化符号的分类并将其展现给世人。本文首先详细阐释了语篇连贯与衔接，文化语境，文化与翻译等理论的概念，就收集的代表性的中国文化符号及其翻译, 详细阐述了各种翻译的策略。然后，文中就具有代表性的中国文化符号及其翻译做了分类。此后，文章又详细解释了各种翻译策略，而策略中最主要使用的有三种，它们分别为直译，意译和插注。

关键词:翻译；文化符号；连贯；策略

1. Introduction
Since the reform and opening-up policy was conducted, China has developed greatly and become one member of World Trade Organization. Since then, the international communication between China and foreign countries goes more and more frequently. However, different languages reflect diverse cultural contexts. And distinct ways and models of thinking exist. Thus, as a tool to multi-cultural communication and information transition, translation gains great importance. Being a bridge of multi-cultural contexts communicating, translation is also developing vigorously as China frequently communicates with other countries.
China gains extensive land and is abundant in natural resources with a long history of five thousand years. Apparently, many things don’t exist in English speaking countries and numerous things keep emerging. For example, numbers have distinct meanings in different cultural contexts. They not only can be used to count things, but also reflect thinking model and social psychology of a specific nation. They can stand for people’s cognition of nature, specific history, etc..