Abstract:

With the popularization of Internet communication, a large number of Chinese    cyber-neologisms have appeared, which reflect the characteristics of a social period. This thesis, based on the background of Chinese social culture, makes a study on the translation of cyber-neologisms from the perspective of the concept and characteristics. The thesis begins with a brief introduction which introduces the emergence of Chinese cyber-neologisms and points out the realistic significance of its study. The second chapter presents the basic knowledge of neologisms including the definition and features, and reviews previous study. The author then discusses the application of three main translation strategies (literal translation, free translation and transliteration) by analyzing the features of Chinese cyber-neologisms appearing in recent two years. The last chapter concludes the paper.

Key words: Chinese cyber-neologism; English translation; translation strategies

摘要：

随着网络交际的普及，大量汉语网络新词的涌现反映了社会特征。本文以当代中国的社会文化为背景，从汉语网络新词的概念和特点出发，研究翻译策略，探讨翻译过程中的可行方法。文章第一章简介网络新词的起源，指明研究的实际意义。第二章分析新词的定义和特征，并回顾前人对新词的研究成果。随后作者运用了奈达的功能对等等理论分析了近两年网络新词的典型英译实例，探讨了三个主要翻译策略——直译、意译和音译。最后进行了总结。

关键词：汉语网络新词；英译；翻译策略

1. Introduction
    With the flying development of the Internet in recent years, network has become one of the most vital communication tools in modem society. Chinese cyber-neologisms can serve as a bridge to reflect current life style and express netizens’ ideas or thoughts. Since cyber-neologism is a mirror which vividly presents China’s dramatic changes in different fields and draws more attention from both home and aboard, many language researchers have been managing to explore effective methods on their translation in order to reflect the times as well as meet the demands of introducing to foreign readers new concepts and new things.