【正文】 al of Translators and selected into the book Abstracts of Chinese 北京理工大學(xué)珠海學(xué)院 20xx 屆本科生畢業(yè)論文 12 Translation Studies published by Qinghua University Press, a press of the top university in China. After all, the international culture exchanges should be in a course of two ways, not of only one way. Besides the Four Asian Little Dragons, there have been the real Four Asian Little Tigers, namely, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. When the Asian financial crisis occurred, people asked in an English newspaper, ―Could the four Asian Little Tigers bee Dragons?‖ In addition, in 1998, a reporter from the Xinhua News Agency called Wang Zhigang, named the four new star cities the Four Little Tigers of Guangdong, imitating the expression of the Four Asian Dragon. These four are cities of Nanhai, Shunde, Dongguan and Zhongshan. Actually, dragon and tiger are not at a same level, and dragon is higher than tiger. So, the usage of tiger instead of dragon may cause confuse and misunderstanding. 北京理工大學(xué)珠海學(xué)院 20xx 屆本科生畢業(yè)論文 13 3. Knocking at the Door of the Western . The Recognition and Acceptance of the West toward Chinese Dragon Actually, when a translator is dealing with the issue that involves dragon, there is no need for him to choose tiger or something else instead of dragon, just as the example ―Four Asian Dragons‖ shows. This is due to the rule that translation pieces should be served as a kind of bridge, which assists its target readers with not only the literal meaning of the source language but also a better understanding of the cream of its culture and tradition. Nowadays, with China opening up to the outside world as well as her society and culture developing fast, the prehensive national strength of China has improved dramatically and the mutual cultural exchange and munication between foreign counties and China has bee more and more frequent. As a result, seas of Westerners begin to realize the fact that there exists a total difference in terms of image and underline meaning of dragon, based on the Western cultural platform they are exposed to, like books, dictionaries published as well as audiovisual materials. The definition of easte。nine dragon screen.39。s Zizhi Tongjian of 1084 AD or the Four Great Books of Song fully piled and edited by the 11th century., What is more, The Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature known as Dream of Red Mansions, The Romance of Three Kingdoms, The Tale of The Marshes as well as The Journey to The West were written during the Ming and Qing novels such as those mentioned above spawned countless fictional stories. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chinese culture would embark on a new era with Vernacular Chinese for the mon citizens. Hu Shih and Lu Xun would be pioneers in modern literature. Therefore, from all of these, it can be learned vividly the originality, greatness, and profound richness of the Chinese civilization in terms of literature. . However, thanks to the means of modern transportation and munication, the world is getting small. The whole world munity appears to be no more than a large globe village where the residents came together with different backgrounds and values. While experiencing the inevitable cultural exchanges and as well as cultural clashes, the villagers seek to live in harmony. As a matter of fact, thanks to China‘s economic development and the improvement of its citizen‘s life, the Westerners‘ vision of Chinese people has broadened. Their taste for art has improved. And they have developed more interests. They are not only concerned about Chinese traditional and modern culture and art but also eager to know about the trends of cultural development across the pla and to learn about different styles and schools of art. It will be impossible for us to scale new heights in art and impossible to present the world excellent works of our own creation with simple imitation which is by no means equivalent to novelty and originality. On the contrary, novelty and originality result from the bination of 北京理工大學(xué)珠海學(xué)院 20xx 屆本科生畢業(yè)論文 3 modern and traditional styles, the bination of these distinctive features of foreign cultures with those of our own nation, and the bination of artistry and education. As is known to all, in this modern world, the advanced culture has never been an isolated phenomenon, but the products of extensive exchanges with other cultures. Of course, the route and main current of any culture must bear its own distinctive national features. Cultural exchanges are by no means a process of losing one39。 第二， 以“亞洲四小龍”翻譯的混亂現(xiàn)狀為例，論述中國(guó)“龍”的翻譯，不能一味迎合西方的文化審美要求。 畢業(yè)論文 Chinese Dragon Image and Translation Strategy Involved 學(xué) 院： 專 業(yè)： 姓 名： 指導(dǎo)老師： 英 語(yǔ) 學(xué) 號(hào)： 職 稱： Chinese Dragon Image and Translation Strategy Involved 北京理工大學(xué)珠海學(xué)院 20xx 屆本科生畢業(yè)論文 II ABSTRACT When many people in the West think of China, the animal that they think of is the dragon. For them, the dragon is an aggressive monster that breathes fire. Many popular legends tell of how dragons killed brave knights and ate beautiful maidens. For Chinese people however, the dragon is not an evil monster at all. It39。 文章的主要內(nèi)容分為四部分： 第一， 從中西方文化實(shí)例入手，論述中西文化交流雙向的必要性 。s Dream Pool Essays. There were also enormous works of historiography and large encyclopedias, such as Sima Guang39。s ceremonial dresses called the dragon robes. And dragons are on their robes, the throne, and even on the buildings in the imperial palace. A special structure is the 39