摘  要

新加坡是一个美丽的国家，也是华人聚居地之一。新加坡有着丰富的旅游资源。新加坡位于马六甲海峡，连接印度洋和太平洋，是世界交通的十字路口，得天独厚的地理环境使新加坡成为连接亚洲和欧洲的商业桥梁，也是世界著名的旅游中心。新加坡自建国以来，经济发展迅猛，随之而来的旅游业也得到了飞速发展。新加坡主要人种有华人，马来人，和印尼人，多样的民族造就了多样的文化，形成了独具特色的国家文化。随着中国的经济繁荣，中国与新加坡之间的交流也越来越多。本文通过鱼尾狮等具体实例，介绍了新加坡的地名英汉翻译。我在2014年暑假期间去新加坡访友游玩，被该国深深吸引，尤其是语言方面。本文以地名的英汉翻译切入，讨论新加坡的语言文化。此论文出于自身兴趣爱好而进行研究，有利于提高自我，了解中国和新加坡两国的旅游文化。

关键词：新加坡；地名翻译；文化

Abstract

Singapore is a beautiful country, which is part of the Chinese diaspora in the world.  Singapore is crossroad of the world near Malacca, between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The perfect location makes Singapore being the commercial center and the world famous tourism spot. When she was built in 1965, her economy has developed at a high speed. Since then, her tourism industry has developed quickly as well. The majority of people in Singapore are the Chinese, the Malaysian and the Indonesian. The culture of Singapore is colorful because of this. With the development of Chinese economy, more Chinese people have chances to travel to Singapore and communication between China and Singapore is becoming better. This paper introduces the translation of names of places in Singapore, such as Merlin. During the summer vacation of 2014, I had the chance to pay a visit for Singapore. At that time, the country gave me a deep impression, especially her language. The focus of this paper is the names of places in Singapore and discusses the language culture there. The paper aims to help me to learn more about the languages in Singapore.

Key words: Singapore; translation of names of places; culture