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翻译作业
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春联与“福”字
汉译英
春联是
中国人过春节的重要标志。每逢春节，家家户户都在大门两边贴上
崭新的春联，辞旧迎新
，为春节增加喜庆气氛。春联均为红色，对中国人来说，
红色是一种吉祥的颜色，代表了
好运、名誉和财富。贴春联的习俗究竟起于何
时，至今仍无确切的材料可资查询。传统春
联是用毛笔书写，但现在手写的春
联越来越少，多为印制的春联。在贴春联的同时，人们
还会贴“福”字。
“福”
字寓意“福气、福运、安康、幸福”<
/p>
，寄托了人们对美好未来的向往和祝愿。为
了更充分地体现这种祝
愿，越来越多的人将“福”字倒过来贴。在汉语中，
“倒”
和“
到”同音，所以“福倒”听起来就是“福到”
。
译文：
Chunlian
,
or
the
Spring
Festival
couplets,
is
an
important
symbol
of
the
Chinese Spring Festival. When the
Spring Festival comes, every family will paste
up
chunlian
on
both sides of the door,
which is meant
to
usher out the passing
year
and
usher
in
the
new
and
add
festive
atmosphere
to
the
Spring
Festival.
Chunlian
is
written
on
red
paper,
for
red
is
a
lucky
color
for
the
Chinese,
representing good fortune, fame and
wealth. Today there is no accurate historical
record
as
to
when
the
custom
of
pasting
up
chunlian
originated.
Traditionally
chunlian is written with a writing
brush, but hand-written chunlian is becoming
rare
nowadays
—
mostly they are in
print. Besides chunlian, people also paste up
the Chinese character
“
福
”
,
which
indicates
blessing, good luck, well-being and
happiness
, and expresses
people
’
s yearning and best
wishes for the coming year.
To
intensify their best wishes, more and more people
paste up the character
“
福”
upside
down
.
In
Chinese,
the
words
for
“
upside
down
”
and
“
arrive
”
are
homophonous
. Therefore, an
upside-down
“
福
”
sounds
identical
to
“
Good luck
arrives
”
.
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