Abstract

Tourism, as a typical Cross-Cultural activity, in all kinds of tourism materials, tourism scenic spots translation plays a very important role. Various scenic spots tend to including rich cultural information. Therefore when we do scenic spots translation,  we should give sufficient consideration to cross-cultural awareness and provide scenic spots information as accurate as possible. This paper firstly talks about something about cross-cultural awareness, then explores the features of Tourism English. Finally it analyzes four scenic spots translation methods, which are beneficial for the transmission of Chinese culture.

Key words: Cross-Cultural awareness; Scenic spots names; Translation

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction-5

2. Literature review-5

3. Features of tourism English-7

3.1 The scope of tourism English is very broad-7

3.2 Tourism English has very deep cultural meaning-8

3.3 Tourism English possesses artistic language feature-8

4.Problems existing in translation of scenic spots names-8

4.1 The name of one scenic spot has different translation terms-8

4.2 Translators ignore the cultural background information of the names of scenic spots-9

   4.3 Translators ignore differences between the Chinese and English  linguistic cultures-10

5. Translation methods of scenic spots names-10

5.1 Transliteration-10

5.2 Free Translation-11

5.3 Transliteration plus Free Translation-12

5.4 Transliteration plus explanation-13

6. Conclusion-14

Work cited-16