A Study on English Translation of Chinese Idioms

Idioms are considered the embodiment of human wisdom and viewed as essence national languages. Both English Chinese replete with idioms, which reflect well-established, extensive, profound cultures East West. Nowadays, flourishing international communication, translation idioms has become increasingly frequent important. The cultural information conveyed by is so distinct that it can pose challenges in idiom translation. Failure to handle different elements appropriately may inevitably lead misunderstanding loss culture process. When translating into English, translator should endeavor preserve language style rich connotation inherent them. In this paper, theory domestication foreignization was initially discussed. Based on analysis, author mainly recommends applying method foreignization.