浅谈《红楼梦》中人名的翻译技巧

本文分析了<红楼梦>的两个英译本在人名的翻译过程中所采用的技巧.笔者认为,文化内容的最大限度传达是判断采用何种译法的重要标准,因而汉语字、号的对等英译,人名的音译、意译、拉丁语译都是不同情境下可采用的不同技巧.

On the Skills in Translating the Names in Dreams of the Red Mansion

Changes in the meaning of color words are determined by culture of which th e substantial content is in turn refl ected by the cultural meanings.Many English and Chinese color words differ in meaning owing to different cultural c on-tent,tradition and psychology,and the cultural connotation differences are likely to cause errors in compr ehension and expression.On the basis of seman tics and pragmatics,this paper makes an elementary research into the differ-ence and similarity between cultura l connotation of English and Chinese color words,which aims to improve th e com-municative ability and avoid ambigu ity and misunderstanding.