Your Nose is as Sleek as Goose Fat: The Standard of Chinese Beauty in the English Tongue

In Hong Lou Meng, the straightforward description of appearances young women characters is highly prevalent ; Cao used rhetorical devices metaphors and similes to present abstract beauty into something visual. As English Chinese culture norms works literature do not share same standard choice images, translation, on one hand, runs dilemma keeping image original thus compromises its reader’s understanding; yet other abandoning loses depicted in source text. This paper concentrates translation utilised describing females by Yang Xianyi Gladys (1978) David Hawkes John Minford (1973). Linguistic are categorised based Dagut’s (1976) notion shared cultural experiences semantic association whilst main aim find out extent which could be retained. The findings show that retention images translating beauty-related acceptable half-shared metaphors. for non-shared metaphors, with some additional ‘help’ adding sense . Meanwhile, usage TL image, it added or made more explicit through simile, should avoided as far possible canonised texts. Keywords: metaphor Meng translation;