A detailed explanation of the methods of word meaning expansion in English translation for postgraduate entrance examination

Extension refers to the semantic adjustment of some words in the translation from the internal meaning of the original words, combined with the context and the expression habits of the target language, in order to achieve the purpose of faithfulness, expressiveness and expressiveness. 6.we often encounter many words, and if we translate them according to the meaning given in the dictionary, the translation will be difficult to understand and even lead to misinterpretation of the meaning. Therefore, it is necessary to change the meaning of words and develop new expressions that can express the inner meaning of words.

Extension can turn concreteness into abstraction and abstraction into concreteness.

First, from concrete to abstract.

There was a time when the immigration bottleneck was so strict that no one was allowed to leave the country out of personal preference.

Analysis: bottleneck originally refers to bottleneck, which has the function of slowing down and blocking, so the abstraction is extended to the limit.

In the past, there was such a situation that immigration restrictions were extremely strict and no one was allowed to move to other countries for personal reasons.

Second, from abstraction to concreteness.

Although there are as many historians as there are, modern practice is the closest to a definition that history is an attempt to reproduce and explain major events in the past.

Almost every historian has his own definition of historiography, but modern historians tend to think that historiography is an attempt to reproduce and clarify important events that happened in the past.