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Volume 8,Issue 8
29 November 2024
English Translation of Metonymy in Du Fu’s Poems
Caixia Sun
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Guangzhou Huanan Business College, Guangzhou 510000, China,
ssr 2024 , 6(11), 1–6;
https://doi.org/10.26689/ssr.v6i11.8781
Abstract
This paper studies the English translation texts of Du Fu’s poems selected from 300 Tang Poems, which were translated by Xu Yuanchong, and displays his poetry writing stages and styles clearly by learning about his life experience. This paper classifies the translation methods of metonymy adopted by the translator, Xu Yuanchong, by analyzing specific English translation texts of metonymy in Du Fu’s poems to provide translation methods regarding translating metonymy in Chinese poetry into English.
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