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（原创）“福倒(到)”如何用英语表达？

2010-12-16 12:57:29| 分类：双关译法探讨 | 标签： |举报 |字号大中小订阅

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近年来倒贴福字，蔚然成风，由门板上的福字到居室各处张贴的福字，再到点心盒甚至贺卡上的福字，一律倒贴。意在取“倒”和“到”的谐音，意为“福到”了。

——摘自互联网

“福到(到)”不但是用了读音的双关，而且带有独特的文化和民俗的内涵，并不能用一个简单的短语来对应翻译，而要作适当的解释。

那该如何向外国朋友解释？

我的做法就是利用down这个单词。

“倒”就是upside down，这好理解。但同时，down还有“下来、向……而来”的意思。

而“到”和“倒”与down发音相近。

因此可以说In Chinese, the character meaning “upside down” has the same pronunciation of that of “down here”. The practice to paste the character “luck/happiness/good fortune”upside down expresses people's New Year's wish to have luck/happiness/good fortune “down here”.

以上英文的含义就是：

在中文里，表示“倒”的汉字与“到”发音相同。把“福”字倒过来贴的做法表达了人们新年期待福“到”的愿望。

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