英语新闻中的引喻及其翻译技巧

引喻是一种生动、简洁的修辞方法，借用历史上或传说中的典故来暗示现实中与之相似的人物或事件，具有极其丰富的文化内涵和意象效果。跨国新闻记者经常在英文报道中使用这一修辞手法，使报道更加趣味盎然，大大地激发起读者的阅读兴趣。但是，由于文化背景不同，英语新闻中的引喻现象常常使中国读者产生理解上的障碍。这种引喻能否达到预期目的，译者的准确翻译显得尤其重要。

The Use and Translation of Newspaper English Allusions

An allusion is a vivid and effective rhetoric, which implies nowadays people or matter with historic events and legends. It involves rich cultural content and carries plentiful connotation. Newspaper reporters often use the rhetoric means in news report to make it vivid and full of interest, it arouses reader＇s interest greatly. But with different culture background, Chinese readers often have obstacle to understand allusions. In order to make allusions reach expected vivid effect, it requires that translators have accurate translation methods in hand.