Abstract This paper is about the similarities and differences of cultures in Chinese and English idioms and their translation, pointing out that, due to the differences in geographical environments, historical developments, social systems, religious beliefs and customs and traditions, there are existent unique elements in Chinese and English. ... With the comparison of the ideas of English and Chinese idioms, we can find the cultural diversity in two languages, and the various translation methods should be put into use. ... In other words, in order to raise people's intercultural awarene...

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But in China, the average sex ratio is 118 as of 2010 and in India it is 108 with even higher sex ratios in certain regions within both countries . ... Unfortunately, this rudimentary interpretation of the situation does not translate to the truth in China and India. ... In fact, projections state that by 2030 more than 25% of Chinese men in their late 30s will never have married . ... But the problem is that their value is being translated not to marriage but into a monetary value for illegal black market trafficking rings that deliver girls to un-wed men of all ages throughout Asia as brides...

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I am a first generation Chinese immigrant living in the bay area. The difference of me from other immigrants that i had my childhood in china, teenager life in Mexico and become an adult in U.S. ... I born in China, Canton, I learned my town dialect that called taisanes, also I learned Cantonese from TV shows, Mandarin from 4 years of elementary school in china. ... So I began study very hard by translating the textbook with a dictionary, at that time I did not have a smartphone to help me to pronounce the word or translate the word, so I carried the dictionary with me to school and during th...

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China, similarly had the same trading systems with cities west of them. ... Unlike China, they didn't (ew!). The Chinese instead focussed on scientific advancements. ... There aren't really any major differences and similarities between these two civilizations because the Indus's form of writing is impossible to translate. ... The Chinese most notably had extremely large palaces (forbidden city) and the Great Wall of China. ...

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Contributors include the ideology of Confucius, a wise Chinese philosopher; the alleged principles behind the status of women in Chinese society; the first emperor to govern a united China, Shi Huangdi; and the numerous religious beliefs, which the people adopted during the era of Traditional China. ... According to Traditional China, such experiences practised on Chinese women proved that they truly were inferior. ... Chinese society was also greatly influenced by various religious beliefs that were extended all over Traditional China. ... The people of Traditional China worshipped nature....

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China has for many years been a major contributor in the role of technology. ... But China is indeed better than at any time in its modern history. ... This would not be a good way to approach the Chinese. China bases their decisions more off actions than verbal promises. ... (Perkowski, 2011) A good strategy in China would be to assemble a local team capable of understanding and translating the culture. ...

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Social After the fall of the Han Dynasty, the population of China dramatically decreased, about 45 million in 600 C.E.. ... Political Yang Jian sent military expeditions into central Asia and southern china, which by 589 the house of Sui ruled all of China. ... The canal was a series of artificial waterways that reached a vast majority throughout China. ... They translated the Indian term dharma as dao, and translated the indian term nirvana as wuev. ... Indeed, Song military difficulties stemmed partly from the fact that nomadic peoples quickly learned chinese techniques and fashioned their o...

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Sullivan pointed out in Linguistic Fallacies: No system of words, no matter how refined or elaborate, can perfectly translate the subtleties of thought or reflect the infinite variety within reality. There will always be an unexpressed margin between language and thought, and this is always a potential source of misunderstanding. 1 Buddhism civilization of China is quite different from Christianity civilization of Western world. ...

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Contributors include the ideology of Confucius, a wise Chinese philosopher; the alleged principles behind the status of women in Chinese society; the first emperor to govern a united China, Qin Shi Huangdi; and the numerous religious beliefs, which the people adopted during the era of Traditional China. ... According to Traditional China, such experiences practiced on Chinese women proved that they truly were inferior. ... Chinese society was also greatly influenced by various religious beliefs that were extended all over Traditional China. ... The people of Traditional China worshipped natu...

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These fires grew as following the 1931 Manchurian incident Japan invaded Manchuria then most China. ... The two main players in this vital struggle for power of the military and thus Japan as a whole were the Koda-ha which translates roughly into the Imperial Way faction and the Tosei-ha which means that Control Faction. ... So any move south into china was not favored by the members of the Koda-ha. ... Another belief of the Tosei-ha faction that contrasted with that of the Koda-ha was that the Tosei-ha unlike the Koda-ha wanted to stay on good terms with the Soviet Union and to make China ...

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However, while a variety of sources were available regarding his Western counterparts such as Montgomery and Eisenhower, copies of books written or translated into English regarding the matter were rare, to say the least. ... So Marcy's pro-Mao work is attributed to his left wing beliefs, Chang's work is linked to her experiences as a participant in the events, and Becker's works are attributed to his insubordination to the Chinese government in his writings for the South China Morning Post. ... Roderick MacFarquhar's Origins of the Cultural Revolution 1 , as the leading ...

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The Chinese economy stagnated during the social-oriented rule of Mao in the 1950's. Instead of focusing on the modernization of the country's agricultural-based economy, China's leader intended to install the many values and doctrines of communism into Chinese society. ... Thus China's market economy was scrapped in favor of one that promoted self-reliance. ... In an effort to encourage economic growth and increase the standard of living among Chinese people, Deng instituted a series of reforms that overhauled Maoist policies concerning China's economy. ... Although th...

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This was a huge deal because many people in Midwest America had never seen a person of Chinese descent before. ... Porter was the man predominantly responsible for the advertising strategies for the Kues, "Porter chose the name Hong Wah Kues, which translates into overseas Chinese.... As a collective majority, America did not completely accept the Chinese. ... "They also set out and connected with Chinese Americans living in the communities they visited.... "For example, a local Chinese American family in Amarillo, Texas made wonton soup for them....

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The imagined community came together to build a nation-state and participate in the Chinese revolution. ... Looking at one of the most famous art prints from the woodcut movement, Hua's Roar, China! ... He translated theoretical texts, published foreign prints and organized an important workshop in 1931 for Chinese art students to learn from a Japanese master. In 1934, he helped curate the exhibition Painters and Printmakers from Revolutionary China, which brought Chinese prints to Paris. ... Many important themes of modern and contemporary Chinese art can be traced back to the woodcut mo...

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These include the CIO, Marketing, CFO, Legal Department, Supply Chain Operations, Human Resources, Public Affairs, Global Development, Americas, Starbucks Channel Development, China and Asia Pacific, EMEA, Global Coffee, Strategy, and International Operations. ... These are Asia Pacific, France, China, and International Development. ... For example, the products consumed in China differ from those in the United States. ... A second example is the pricing structure that has been put in place by the financial team in the Chinese region. ... In China, this has translated into higher retention of ...

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Management executives encountered poorly translated signs and a merchandise assortment that included inappropriate items. ... Wal-Mart seemed to lack the control that translated into low prices in the United States. ... China was due to join the World Trade Organization and Wal-Mart executives were ready to capitalize on the economic expansion. Wal-Mart had a joint venture with China that was launched in 1996; by the end of 2000 Wal-Mart had 10 more stores in China (Keegan and Green 522). ...

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Required language translations included Spanish, German, Italian, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean. ... To achieve this translation goal, several alternatives were carefully considered. ... " SDL intelligent Machine Translation (SDL iMT) is the intelligent combination of translation automation software with linguistic skills, delivering up to three times the translation throughput of traditional human translation. ... Translation Memory is maintained to ensure sentences are only translated once. The whole process is controlled by the SDL Translation Management System. ...

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In 1799, the Rosetta stone was discovered and Hieroglyphics were finally able to be translated. ... Contributions from China: Gunpowder, The compass, and paper. ... Chinese characters are logograms, graphic signs that represent an entire word. Written Chinese was never broken down into syllable signs, like cuneiforms. Spoken and written Chinese are independent of each other. ...

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China's foreign direct investment is a reasonable approach for development in Africa. ... They have also been able to provide scholarships to students to study in China and many other advantages for African governments. ... In no time China will soon be involved in government especially if transaction costs become to high. ... Free trade is beneficial to the aggregate GDP of a nation but does not necessarily translate to growth per capita income. ... Agricultural subsidies are key to China's agricultural industries, which exceed more than 30 percent of agro-industrial output. ...

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These include the CIO, Marketing, CFO, Legal Department, Supply Chain Operations, Human Resources, Public Affairs, Global Development, Americas, Starbucks Channel Development, China and Asia Pacific, EMEA, Global Coffee, Strategy, and International Operations. ... These are Asia Pacific, France, China, and International development. ... For example, the products consumed in China differ from those in the United States. ... A second example is the pricing structure that has been put in place by the financial team in the Chinese region. ... In China, this has translated into higher retention of ...

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Although Chinese dialects make up the majority of language use in the home at over 50%, more and more households are using English in the home. ... This all started to slowly change after many policymakers feared that the Chinese speakers in Singapore would support the revolution in China in the early 1950's. ... It would be the same for participation in the Chinese folk religions, one would have to have knowledge of the Chinese language and often a specific dialect(Clammer 91). ... So children often attend an English stream school but a Chinese language church for the sake of family to...

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Land Pakistan is bounded by Iran to the west, Afghanistan to the northwest and north,China to the northeast, and India to the east and southeast. ... Since 1947 the Kashmir region, along the western Himalayas, has been disputed, with Pakistan, India, and China each controlling sections of the territory. ... It was later pointed out that, when translated from Urdu, Pakistan could also mean "Land of the Pure....

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For the past forty years, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Japan have been fighting over a territory dispute for five uninhabited islands and three rocks in the East China Sea, of which Japan currently has "administrative control". ... In the late eighteen hundreds, Japan surveyed the islands as "terra nullius," which translates in Latin as "belonging to no one" ("Narrative," 2012). ... Furthermore, China declares that Japan's 1985 terra nullius claim to the Senkaku islands was conveniently during China's...

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The annual growth of worldwide air travel is recorded to 5% with China contributing to the highest number of 12% annually. ... The aviation industry is attributed to more than 32 million job vacancies that translate to an 8% percent gross domestic product (Iata.org, 2015). ... With the inherent increased growth of commercial flights, it is evident that more flights result in more consumption and waste that consequently translates to increase in global warming. ... As one of the largest airports in the world, the airport receives major traffic that translates into major noise in the vicinity. ...

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Because the Japanese created the emojis system to translate Japanese culture, it stands to reason that emojis users in other countries and cultures need emojis tailored to their countries and cultures. ... Thus, if an American wants to communicate with someone from China, the American could go to the Chinese emojis menu and select the emojis that Chinese speaker would understand. ...

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