中国传统文化的英语翻译

临门一脚，四六级翻译必备中国文化

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一、对龙图腾他的崇拜在中国大约已绵延了八千多 年。中国龙是古人将鱼、蛇、

马、牛等动物与云雾、雷电等自然天象集合而成的一种神物 。

中国龙的形成与

中华民族的多元融 合过程同步。

在中国人的心目中，

龙具有振奋腾飞、

的寓意和团结凝聚的精神。

Chinese

Dragon

Dragon

totem

worship

in

China

has

been

around

for

the

last

8,000

years.

The

ancients

in

China

considered

the

dragon

(or

loong)

a

fetish

that

combines

animals

including the fish, snake, horse and ox with cloud, thunder, lightning and

other natural celestial phenomena. The Chinese dragon was formed in

accordance with the multicultural fusion process of the Chinese nation.

To the Chinese, the dragon signifies innovation and cohesion.

< br>二、

秧歌舞是中国汉族的一种民间传统舞蹈，

通常在北方 省份表演。

秧歌舞者通

常穿上明亮多彩的表演服装，

在农历春节、

元宵节等

节日期间，

人们一旦听到锣鼓声，

不管 外面天气有多冷，

他们都会蜂拥到街上看

秧歌舞表演。

近年来，

中国东北某些城市的老年人自发组织了了秧歌队，

队员常

年通过跳秧歌舞来保持健康，

同事他们也乐在 其中。

Yangko is one of tradition

folk dance of Han in is usually performed in northern provinces.

The

dancers

usually

wear

colorful

and

light

costumes,

and

the

performance is powerful and rapid. During some festivals such as Spring

Festival, Lantein Festival, if people hear the sound of drum and gong, no

matter how cold the weather is , they will come to street and appreciate

the Yangko. Recent years, the old people in city of east-northern of China

organized

the

team

of

Yangko

by

themselves,

the

teamers

keep

their

health by dancing Yangko the whole year.

三、

长城是 人类创造的世界奇迹之一。

如果你到了中国却没去过长城，

就想 到了

巴黎没有去看看菲尔铁塔，或者就像到了埃及没有去看金字塔一样。人们常说：

“不到长城非好汉。

”实际上，

长城最初只 是一些断断续续的城墙，

直到秦朝统

一中国后才将其连城长城。 然而，今天我们看到的长城——东起山海关，西至

嘉峪关——大部分都是在明代修建的。

The Great Wall is one of the wonders

of the world that created by human beings! If you come to China without

climbing the Great Wall, it's just like going Paris without visiting the Eiffel

Tower; or going to Egypt without visiting the Pyramids! Men often say,

who

doest

not

reach

the

Great

Wall

is

not

a

true

man.

fact,

it

began

as

independent

walls for

different

states when

it

was first

built,

and did not become the

wall

we

see

today,

starting

from

Shanhaiguan

Pass

in

the

east

to

Jiayunguan Pass in the west, was mostly built during the Ming Dynasty.

四、Dumplings

Dumplings

are

one

of

the

Chinese

people’s

favorite

traditional

dishes.

According

to

an

ancient

Chinese

legend,

dumplings

were first made by the medical saint--- Zhang Zhongjing. There are three

steps involved in making dumplings: 1) make dumpling wrappers out of

dumpling

flour;

2)

prepare

the

dumpling

stuffing;

3)

make

dumplings

and boil them. With thin and elastic dough skin, fresh and tender stuffing,

delicious

taste,

and

unique

shapes,

dumplings

are

worth

eating

hundreds of times. There’s an old saying that claims, “Nothing could

be

more

delicious

than

dumplings”.

During

the

Spring

Festival

and

other

holidays,

or

when

treating

relatives

and

friends,

Chinese

people

like

to

follow

the

auspicious

custom

of

eating

dumplings.

To

Chinese

people

who

show

high

reverence

for

family

love,

having

dumplings

at

the moment the old year is replaced by the new is an essential part of

bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new year.

饺子是深受中国

人民喜爱的传统食品。

相传为古代医圣张仲景发明。饺子的制作是包括：

1

）

擀皮、

2

）

备馅、

3

）

包馅水煮三个步骤。其特点是皮薄馅嫩，味道鲜美，形

状独特， 百食不厌。民间有“好吃不过饺子”的俗语。中国人接亲待客、逢年过

节都有包饺子吃的 习俗，

寓意吉利。

对崇尚亲情的中国人来说，

< br>“更岁交子”吃

饺子，更是欢度除夕、辞旧迎新必不可少的内容。

五、

Acupuncture

is

an

important

part

of

traditional

Chinese

medicine

(TCM). In accordance with the “main and collateral channels” theory in

TCM, the purpose of acupuncture is to dredge the channel and regulate

qi

and

blood,

so

as

to

keep

the

body’s

yin

and

yang

balanced

and

achieve

reconciliation

between

the

internal

organs.

It

features

in

traditional

Ch

inese

medicine

that

“internal

diseases

are

to

be

treated

with external therapy”. The main therapy of acupuncture involves using

needles to pierce certain acupoints of the patient’s body, or adopting

moxibustion to stimulate the patient’s acupoints so as to

stimulate the

channels and relieve pain. With its unique advantages, acupuncture has

been handed down generation after generation and has now spread all

over the world. Nowadays, acupuncture, along with Chinese food, kung

fu

(otherwise

known

as

Chinese

martial

arts),

and

traditional

Chinese

medicine,

has

been

internationally

hailed

as

one

of

the

“four

new

national

treasures.”

针灸是中医学的重要组成部分。按照中医的经络理论，

针灸疗法主要是通过疏通 经络、

调和气血，

来达到阴阳归于平衡，

使脏腑趋于调

和之目的。其特点是“内病外治”。主要疗法是用针刺入病人身体的一定 穴位，

或用艾火的温热刺激烧灼病人的穴位，

以达到刺激经络。

治疗病痛的目的。

针灸

以其独特的优势 ，流传至今并传播到了世界，与中餐、功夫、中药一起被海外誉

为中国的“新四大国粹” 。

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四六级考前翻译中国文化 必备（二）

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六、

Chinese

Kung

Fu

Chinese

kung

fu,

or

Chinese

martial

arts,

carries

traditional Chinese culture in abundance. It is a traditional Chinese sport

which applies the art of attack and defence in combat and the motions

engaged with a series of skill and tricks. The core idea of Chinese king fu

is derived from the Confucian theory of both “the mean and harmony”

and

“cultivating

qi”

(otherwise

known

as

nourishing

one’s

spirit).

Meanwhile, it also includes thoughts of T

aoism and Buddhism. Chinese

kung fu has a long history, with multi- various sects and many different

boxing

styles,

and

emphasizes

coupling

hardness

with

softness

and

internal

and

external

training.

It

contains

the

ancien

t

great

thinkers’

pondering of life and the universe. The skills in wielding the 18 kinds of

weapons

named

by

the

later

generations

mainly

involve

the

skills

of

bare- handed

boxing,

such

as

shadow

boxing

(Taijiquan),

form

and

will

boxing (Xingyiquan), eight trigram palm (Baguazhang), and the skills of

kung fu weaponry, such as the skill of using swords, spears, two-edged

swords and halberds, axes, tomahawks, kooks, prongs and so on.

中国功

夫即中国武术，

是将技击寓于搏斗和套路运动之中的中国传统体育项目承载着丰

富的中国民族传统文化。其核心思想是儒家的中和养气之说，同时兼容了道家、

< br>释家的思想。中国武术源远流长、流派林立、拳种繁多，讲究刚柔并济、内外兼

修 ，蕴含着先哲们对生命和宇宙的参悟。后世所称十八般武艺，主要指：徒手拳

艺，如太极 拳、形意拳、八卦掌等；器械功夫，如刀枪剑戟、斧钺钩叉等。

七、

Chinese characters were initially meant to be simple pictures used to

help

people

remember

things.

After

a

long

period

of

development,

it

finally became a unique character system that embodies phonetic sound,

image, idea, and rhyme at the same time. The writing system, which was

extremely advanced in ancient times, began with inscriptions on bones

and

tortoise

shells,

and

these

are

regarded

as

the

original

forms

of

Chinese

characters.

Afterwards,

Chinese

characters

went

through

numerous

calligraphic

styles:

bronze

inscriptions,

official

script,

regular

script,

cursive

script,

running

script,

etc.

Chinese

characters

are

usually

round

outside

and

square

inside,

which

is

rooted

in

ancient

Chinese

beliefs of an orbicular sky and a rectangular Earth. The five basic strokes

of

Chinese

characters

are

“

---

“

(the

horizontal

stroke)

“│”

(the

vertical

stroke),

“／”(

the

left

-

falling

stroke),

“＼”

(the

right

-falling

strok

e), and “乙” (the turning stroke).

汉字是从原始人用以记事 的简单图画，经过不断演变发展最终成为一种兼具音、

形、

意韵 的独特文字。

现存中国古代最早成熟的文字是甲骨文，

被认为是 现代汉

字的初形。此后，汉字又经历了金文、隶书、楷书、草书、行书等不同的阶段。< /p>

汉字结构“外圆内方“，

源于古人”天 圆地方“的观念。

汉字有五种基本笔画，

即：横、竖、撇、捺、 折。

八、

Chinese

Chopsticks

The

Chinese

way

of

eating

with

chopsticks

is

unique

in

the

world.

The

recorded

history

of

chopsticks

started

more

than three thousand years ago. Chopsticks were named zhu in ancient

Chinese. They look deceptively simple to use, but possess multi- various

functions,

such

as

clamping,

turning

over,

lifting

up,

raking,

stirring,

scooping,

poking,

tearing,

and

so

on.

Chopsticks

were

taken

as

an

auspicious mascot by ordinary people in ancient China. For example, the