从思维方式谈中菜英译

思维方式是文化心理学的一个重要研究领域,它决定着人们看待事物的方式和角度。中国人以整体、崇古、辩证等思维倾向为主要特征;美国人则以瞻前、分析、逻辑等思维倾向为主要特征。这两种思维方式的不同对中文菜谱和英文菜谱的命名方式必然产生影响。从思维方式分析中文菜谱和英文菜谱的命名,可以更好地指导中文菜谱英译,加深美国对中国文化了解,为中华文化走出去搭建更高的平台。

On English Translation of Chinese Dishes from the Perspective of Thinking Way

Thinking way is one of the most important exploring fields in cultural psychology and it determines the angle and way of how people seeing the objects. Thinking way has an effect on naming dishes of China and the U. S. A, for the former respects such thinking ways as integrity, worshiping the ancient ideas, and dialectic; while the latter looking ahead, analysis and logic. Analyzing the Chinese dish names and the English dish names from thinking way can better put Chinese dish names into English and for Americans, to understand Chinese culture, which will build a higher platform for Chinese culture going abroad.