Cultural Barriers between Chinese and English Translation

摘要

This paper defines translation as an act of communication in a cross-cultural context, and then discusses the unavoidable cultural barriers in the process of translation. While cultures are composed of a large number of elements, this paper is just mainly related to three elements including historical culture difference, geographical difference, and social culture difference. Through an?alyzing the cultural barriers from different respective, the author is aimed to remind the readers that when do translation, they must have some culture consciousness and relative cultural translation strategies in mind. In the last part of the paper strategies of trans?lation (especially for the translation between English and Chinese) are put forward, by means of which individuals could tackle the cultural barriers in the process of translation, making for a good communication between different cultures.