福建星级酒店闽菜菜谱英译问题分析与对策

深入福建省星级酒店餐厅进行调研,收集第一手闽菜双语菜谱语料,认为部分闽菜菜谱翻译存在着硬译、用词不准确、不符合菜单设计精简原则、信息传达不到位、地方烹饪术语误译、菜肴译名文化内涵流失等失误。从而从跨文化交际角度提出灵活运用直译、意译、音译、增词、注释等翻译对策,旨在提高福建星级酒店菜谱翻译质量,提升闽菜在外国客户中的形象。

A Probe into Chinese-English Restaurant Menu Translation in Fujian

This thesis is a probe into the quality of English translation of Fujian dishes.37 first-hand restaurant menus were collected from Fujian star hotels and many translation errors were found,such as word-for-word translation,poor diction,wordy with little information,wrong translation of local culinary terms,or ignorance of the source-cultural connotations.Many translation strategies,such as literal translation,free translation,annotation,amplification or transliteration,are put forward from the perspective of cross-cultural communication and for the purpose of improving the translation quality of Fujian menus and promoting the images of Fujian food with overseas diners.