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1、AnalysisofdifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishintheprocessoftranslationa Abstract:Asanofficiallanguageinalmost60sovereignstates,EnglishisthemostcommonlyspokenlanguageintheUnitedKingdom,theUnitedStates,Canada,Australia,Ireland,NewZealandaswellassomedistrictsoftheCaribbe
2、an,AfricaandSouthAsia.Withthespeedingupintheprocessofglobalization,EnglishplaysanincreasinglyessentialroleinEconomicsandPolitics.Asaconsequence,theoccupationofinterpretingandtranslatingspringsupinthemodernsociety,especiallyinthosenon-English-speakingcountries.Itiscriticalforbothinter
3、pretersandtranslatorstoaccuratelydistinguishdifferencesbetweenBritishandAmericanEnglishtoavoidhybridEnglishwhichmayleadtounnecessarymisunderstanding.Thispaperattemptstoanalyzedifferencesintwoaspects:pronunciationsandvocabularythatinterpretersaresupposedtofocuswhiletheyareconvertingso
4、urcelanguageintotargetone. Keyword:BritishEnglish,AmericanEnglish,lexicalandphonicdifferences.8 中圖分類號(hào):G633.41文獻(xiàn)標(biāo)識(shí)碼:B文章編號(hào):1672-1578(2016)10-0190-01 Introduction:AmericanEnglishoriginatesfromEnglishofElizabethtimewithitshistorycloselylinkedwithAmericanmigranthistory.Settlerswhospeak
5、EnglishfirstlyarrivedinNorthAmericaintheperiodof17thcentury.Gradually,AmericanEnglishhasbeenintegratedwiththelanguagesofWestAfrica,theNativeAmericanpopulation,German,Dutch,Irish,SpanishandtheotherlanguagesbelongingtoimmigrantsinAmerica.SincethenAmericanEnglishformsitsowncharacteristi
6、cswhichcanbevividlydistinguishedfromBritishEnglishbothinvocabularyandpronunciations.Atpresent,integrationofculture,economyandpoliticssaturatetheworld,bringingEnglishtotheinternationalplatform.Inthisway,Englishinterpretersandtranslatorsshouldermoreobligationstotransformthelanguageaccu
7、ratelywhenconfrontedwithdifferenttargetaudienceindifferentcountries,avoidingambiguityaswellashybridEnglish. 1.DifferencesinMeaning 1.1Homonyms.Whentwowordsareidenticalinbothsoundandspelling,theyarecompletehomonyms.ItiscommonbetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglishbeingendowedwithdif
8、ferentmeanin