Dynamic Equivalence In Translation

1. Introduction

As is known to all, American slang is a great important part of English, as well as American culture. It not only occurs in spoken English but also American literature. When it comes to slangs, it can be divided into many aspects, like English slang and American slang, and etc. No doubt that American slang has a great proportion of Slangs.

American slang is a kind of informal language whose original meaning is rude expression or extremely narrow range of application. But with the time changing, nowadays the modern American slang has already been given new meanings. That’s to say, American slang has been spread in all social aspects of people’s life and has been accepted by millions of people. In American English, slangs are the expressions which equipped with social life characteristics. According to inaccurate statistics, it shows that slangs occupy about 10% of American’s frequent used words which has lofty capacity of language expression and abound cultural color.

Many people often mix slangs, idioms and proverbs up. To some extent, they are totally different things. We can find the

According to the essence of translation, a famous American translation theorist Eugene A.Nida put forward a dynamic equivalence theory, which is the famous functional equivalence theory. Eugene A.Nida (1986) argued that translation is the reproduction of the source language and the most natural equivalence in the target language from the semantic to the stylistic. And Nida divided equivalence into form equivalence and dynamic equivalence. The principle of functional equivalence shifts the focus of translation from the emphasis on the information form to the attention of information content and the response of readers. It is of great significance to understand and solve the problem of meaning equivalence in cross-cultural