形神兼备重求神似--谈英汉翻译中修辞格的处理

英汉两种语言在修辞手法上有许多相似之处，在翻译时应尽可能的用直译手法(即用词和修辞结构上都与原文一致)，做到形神皆似；但因为中西方在思维方式，美学观念和文化方面存在差异，有些英汉修辞格并不对等，在翻译时不便照搬原文的修辞格式，应采取意译的方法，重求神似。

Likeness in Both Form and Spirit with Emphasis on the Latter

There is much similarity between the figures of speech of English and those of Chinese. The figures should be translated literally as fully as possible, i.e., the translation should reproduce in the target language the wording and rhetorical structure of the original text, so as to achieve the likeness in both form and spirit. However, the rhetorical pattern of the original, sometimes, should be freely translated to achieve likeness in spirit only, since China differs from the West in code of thinking, aesthetics and culture. In this case the emphasis should be put on the likeness in spirit.