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    Lesson 35‚ 莊子秋水 (3) 河伯曰:「若物之外,若物之內,惡至而倪貴賤?惡至而倪小大?」北海若曰:「以道觀之,物無貴賤; The earl of the He said‚ ’Whether the subject be what is external in things‚ or what is internal‚ how do we come to make a distinction between them as noble and mean‚ and as great or small?’ Ruo of the Northern Sea replied‚ ’When we look at them in the light of the Dao‚ they are neither noble nor mean. 以物觀之,自貴而相賤:以俗觀之,貴賤不在己。以差觀之,因其所大而大之,則萬物莫不大;因其所小而小之,則萬物莫不小。 Looking at them in themselves‚ each thinks itself noble‚ and despises

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    Annotation The problems of translation of economic terms in bilingual periodicals published in Ukraine (on the basis of newspaper “Den’/The Day”‚ “Dzerkalo Tyzhnia/Mirror Weekly”). Object: to analyze linguostylistic‚ lexical‚ grammatical and pragmatic problems of translation. According to the classification of Katherine Rice‚ newspaper publications belong to the pragmatic type of texts. That is why the problems of translation should not be limited only to the linguostylistic analysis. In

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    Verbal and noun honorific suffixes are the most used politeness strategies in Korean‚ yet there exists corresponding pronoun to T/V; 너(’nuh’) is equivalent of ’tu’ and 당신(’tang-shin’) could substitute ’vous’. 당신(‘tang-shin’) might be a word that appears more in written texts or that is used in restricted contexts; In a corpus study‚ it appeared to be most frequently used between married couples‚ or when addressing a person who is not elder or superior (Yan‚ 2014). Nevertheless‚ in many cases it conveys

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    important figures of speech‚ and the skillful use of puns makes advertising language vivid and humorous. This paper explores punning and the translation of puns in English advertisements. It deals with various ways to form puns‚ and the techniques used in translating puns in English advertisements. Key Words: advertising English‚ advertisement‚ pun‚ translation""ContentsAcknowledgementsiAbstractiiii1Introduction12The Characteristics of Puns Used in Advertisements22.1 Homophonic Puns32.2 Semantic Puns42

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    corpora in translation‚ types of corpora and general application of different corpora in translation studies. 2.1 Why use corpora in translation studies According to Bowker and Pearson (2002:9)‚ a corpus is “a large collection of authentic texts that have been gathered in electronic form according to a specific set of criteria”. (Bowker and Pearson 2002:9) and corpus research has greatly influenced the way we study and investigate translation a lot. The use of corpus in translation studies

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    In the Wall Street Journal‚ Lost in Translation is an article about how language has influenced the way people view the world. Lera Boroditsky ask the public a question if language really shapes the way we speak without even noticing that our brain is even doing that. She explains that English language marks the verb tense‚ but that the Russian language marks the verb tense and describes the gender as well. In the Turkish language you would require the verb and the information to support the verb

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    ADAB AL-RAFIDAYN‚ VOL.(57) 1431/2010 Assessing the Translations of Collocation in the Glorious Qur’an into English Yasir Y. Abdullah* 2009 :‫تاريخ القبول‬ /115 / 2008/4:‫تاريخ التقديم‬ /11 1. Introduction Collocation is a linguistic phenomenon found in language. Different languages have their own collocations and their own ways in dealing with them. Being a native speaker of a certain language necessitates being familiar and acquainted with collocations. Since a translator

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    Lost in Translation (2003). Director: Sofia Coppola. Summary The film takes place in Tokyo where two characters find themselves feeling alone and lost in the foreign landscape. Bob‚ a famous American actor‚ and Charlotte‚ who is married to constantly working photographer‚ are drawn to each other. They grow sympathetic towards one another and together they navigate the spaces (clubs‚ restaurants‚ karaoke bars) of an unfamiliar culture. They gain a deeper understanding of one another. Charlotte

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    Cultural differences and translation of idioms Language and culture are closely connected and inseparable‚ as a language idiom is the essence of the deposition of the fascinating history and culture. Because of geography‚ history‚ religion‚ customs and other aspects of life differences between Chinese and English Idioms carrying characteristics of the different cultures and cultural information‚ so English-Chinese Idioms often encounter many difficulties. From the geographical environment‚ historical

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    Translation studies‚ in recent years‚ have become more prominent among different fields of study. Each year with more journals and essays being published concerning this major‚ more attention is focused on it and more students are attracted towards it. There are different reasons for people to focus on this field of study. Reasons such as field of interest‚ communication aims‚ job opportunities‚ etc are some of them which are explained in what follows. The firs reason for most translation students

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