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1、AcomparativestudyofEnglishandChinesecolorwords漢英色彩詞對(duì)比研究【關(guān)鍵詞】漢英；色彩詞；文化；翻譯I.IntroductionThecolorisakindofhumanbeing’saesthesiaintheobjectiveworld.Variouscolorsexistinthecolorfulworld:bluesky,greentrees,redflowersandwhiteclouds.Colorconnectswithourlifecloselyanditisanimportantwayforustorealizet
2、hisworld.Colorwordsnotonlyhavephysicalpropertiesbutalsohaverichculturalconnotations.Culturalconnotationmeansvocabularyisendowedwiththemeaningofmetaphor,association,symboletc.Indifferentcountries,colorwordsofculturalconnotationsaredifferent.SothesamecolormayhavethedifferentmeaninginEnglishand
3、Chinese,becauseofthedifferenthistoryandculture.Whenonekindofcolorshasdifferentmeaningsindifferentcultures,wecan’tsaywhichkindoflinguisticexpressionismorereasonable,moreexactandbettertouse.SoacomparativestudyofEnglishandChinesecolorwordsisveryimportanttounderstandEnglishandChineselanguage,cul
4、tureandcross-culturalcommunicationandtheChinese-EnglishCorrespondingRelationshipandtheStrategiesforEnglish-ChineseTranslationofColorWords.II.TheCulturalDifferencesbetweenChineseandEnglishColorWordsA.TheDefinitionandConceptofColorWordsThereareplentyofcolorwordsinbothEnglishandChinese.Definite
5、ly,colorwordsarewordstodescribethecolorofthingsinlanguages.Thephysiologicalresponsethatthecolorcausesashumanvisionhassomecharacteristicsincommon.Aftertheresearchonmorethan100languages,somescholarfoundthateverylanguagehasacertainnumberofcolorwords.LinguistsBerlinandKay(1969)suggeststhattherea
6、reelevenbasiccolorwordsinEnglishafterhisdetailedresearch,theyarewhite,black,red,yellow,green,blue,brown,purple,orange,pink,andgrey.Alsothecolortermscanbeclassifiedasbasiccolortermsandobjectcolorterms.Basiccolortermsmean?“wordsusedtodescribethecolorofobjectswhentheyappear”.?(LuHongmei,P135,20
7、06)BasiccolortermscomefromthelanguageofAnglo-Saxon,includingsevenkindsofcolors.Theyare?“red,orange,yellow,green,blue,indigoandviolet”.InChinese,theyare?“赤、橙、黃、綠、青、藍(lán)、紫”.Althoughbasiccolortermscontainonlyafewwords,theycanbeusedwithotherwordstoindicat
