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A Study on the Translation of Chinese Four-Character Phrases—Taking the Iconology of the Decorated Writing-Paper of the Ten Bamboo Studio as an Example

Author(s)

BAO De-wang, XIANG Hua-li

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2023.07.005

Affiliation(s)

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

ABSTRACT

The book named Iconology of the Decorated Writing-Paper of the Ten Bamboo Studio is a collection of arch and woodblock paintings of Ming Dynasty, which is translated by the authors of this paper. The translation of this book is mainly about the notes and provenance of the paintings. The goal of this paper is to describe the translation activity of Chinese four-character phrases with the practical translation methods and techniques including paraphrase, omission, addition, and shift, which is the most difficult part during the translation process of this book. The author in this paper hopes that the methods for the translation of Chinese four-character phrases will provide certain help for the understanding and spread of Chinese classical stories from the book Iconology of the Decorated Writing-Paper of the Ten Bamboo Studio.

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Iconology of the Decorated Writing-Paper of the Ten Bamboo Studio, four-character phrases, translation strategies

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US-China Foreign Language, July 2023, Vol. 21, No. 7, 279-286 doi:10.17265/1539-8080/2023.07.005

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