Abstract:

Culture-loaded words are the cultural vocabulary which can best embody the culture information and reflect the social life in the language system. The paper takes the classic poem The Song of Burying Flowers as a case, for it is rich in culture-loaded words. Such words demonstrate Daiyu’s spiritual world under the cruel reality, while they also bring, to a certain degree, difficulties to translation. Therefore, it is essential to translate these words successfully. In this paper, two translations of Yang Hsien-yi and Hawks will be analyzed from the perspective of domestication and foreignization. By comparison, it is found that domestication is adopted by Hawks, which makes readers feel the feelings of the original readers as far as possible, while foreignization is adopted by Yang Hsien-yi, which is faithful to the original article and respect the original Chinese culture. In contrast, Yang Hsine-yi’s translation is closer to the oringinal, while Hawkes’s is westernized to a certain extent.                                                     

Key words:The song of burying flowers; culture-loaded words; domestication; foreignization

摘要：

文化负载词是语言系统中最能体现文化承载的文化信息，反映人类社会生活的文化词汇。诗歌《葬花吟》中富含文化负载词，它们充分展示黛玉在冷酷现实摧残下的心灵世界的同时，也给翻译带来了一定的难度，因此，其中文化负载词的翻译成功与否至关重要。本文以《葬花吟》为例，从归化和异化的角度，对比分析杨宪益与霍克斯对该诗中文化负载词的翻译。通过研究发现，霍克斯采用“归化”使译文读者尽可能感受到原文读者的感受，而杨宪益则采用“异化”，他忠实原文，尊重原著所体现的中国文化。相较之下，杨宪益的翻译更贴近原文，而霍克斯的翻译在一定程度上将其西化了。

关键词：《葬花吟》；文化负载词；归化；异化

Introduction
The Song of Burying Flowers is a poem created by Cao Xueqin in his famous novel A Dream of Red Mansions. It describes the inner world of the heroine Lin Daiyu, express her sadness, misery, anxiety and conflicts. It attracts great attention of scholars home and abroad, because the poem is rich in culture-loaded words. The cultural vocabulary can best embody Chinese culture and reflect the social life in the Chinese language system. It is of great importance to translate these words successfully because they are the treasure of Chinese culture. However, it is these words that birng lots of difficulties to translators for it may be difficult even impossible to find the same or equal words in other cultures. Therefore, this paper is to make a study on how to translate these culture-loaded words by two common strategies: domestication and foreignization. So, this paper will analyze the English versions of The Song of Burying Flowers by domestication and foreignization. In this paper, two English versions by Yang Hsien-yi and Hawks of The Song of Burying Flowers will be compared and analyzed so as to have a better understanding of the poem.