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On Translation of Polysemic Words in News English
GUO Yingping
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2021.07.004
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Polysemic words appear in news English with high-frequency. So, how to determine the exact meaning of a polysemic word in the news and put it into proper Chinese causes much trouble and frustration to readers. This paper summarizes some effective translating strategies of polysemic words from English to Chinese. They include: translating based on collocation, translating based on grammar, translating based on background knowledge, translating based on logical relation, and translating based on register.
polysemic word, news English, translating strategy
Sino-US English Teaching, July 2021, Vol. 18, No. 7, 196-201 doi:10.17265/1539-8072/2021.07.004
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