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1、漢英數字文化比較及其翻譯[Abstract]Numbers,asaspecialpartinthescienceoflinguistics,arebersservethesamecalculatingfunctioninbothChineseandEnglish.Butbecauseoftheculturaldiversityfoundinthenationalpsychology,religiousbeliefandmythology,numbersareendoberssoastogeneratethEiroeralcultures.T
2、herefore,intheprocessoftranslatingnumbers,especiallyonesinthefolklanguageandliteraryakearelativelythoroughstudyofthelanguageandculturebothinChineseandEnglish,andconsiderthediscrepancyinthevaguenessofnumbersrespectivelybeforerenderingsatisfactorytranslations.[Keyanythingsth
3、atareparticularlypletearestampedber“three”intheareaslikephysics,mathematics,philosophyandsoforth.Therearethreepletingtime,thatis,past,presentandfuture.Similarly,number“seven”,anumberesithasreferencetobringasoridiomaticusagesperance;theSevenDeadlySins,saying,Pride,ythologya
4、ssociatedbersinbothChineseandEnglishculturehasdeeplyinfluencedtheculturalconnotationsofnumbers.InChinese,theculturalconnotationsofnumbershaveconnectionyth.Forinstance,fourcharacterChinesemyth,narratingasupernaturalbeing.Nezha,s.Hehasvastlymagicpohimselfintothreeatrandom.Ac
5、cordingly,number“three”isendoagicandpoorestronglyaffectedbytheGreekandRomanmythology,blethecharacterofhumansanmyth,god“Jupiter”,sfromhistridentorthree-prongedthunder-stickinhishand,governstheothers.Neptune,thegodofthesea,reliesonhisthree-prongedspear,andPlutoisadogber“thre
6、e”islodgedber“thirteen”,inaccordanceyth,isanevilone,ilarconnotationandsymbolizationtoChristianity.ItissaidthattoniacRocky,anunexpectedperson,arrivedandkilledthesonoftheheadgodAustintodeath.Hence,theber“thirteen”justliketheplague[17].Allinall,thefunctionofnumbersisnotlimite
7、dinthecalculationormathematics.Itisobviousthatnumbershavegraduallyevolvedthroughoutthelonghistoryofhumanity,inresponsetopracticalrequirementsforcalculation,formingaspecialcultureofnumbers.Fromtheanalysisabove,ber.Thus,studyingthediversityofnumbercultsinEnglishandChinesenot
8、onlyhelpsusunderstandtheirspecificculturesbetter,butalsofacilitatesinterculturalmunicatio