文档介绍：从中西“龙”文化发展差异浅谈如何英译龙
Comparisons on different cultural developments of dragon in China
and western country
—To discuss how to translate “dragon” into English
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Acknowledgements
My deepest gratitude goes firstly and foremost to my supervisor, Ms Zhang Xuan, for her inestimable help, consistent encouragement and valuable instruction.
I would also like to extend my sincere thankfulness to my classmates, who have been supporting and encouraging me consistently, and also helping me in working out the difficulties during the process of searching for materials, writing this paper, etc.
I am indebted to those writes and editors whose works I appreciate and benefit from greatly. Without these valuable materials, my argumentation would not have been authoritatively supported.
I also thank those who have helped me in course of writing and those whose name I can't list here one by one.
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Contents
Introduction 7
Different cultural and historical developments of dragon in China and
western countries 10
The cultural and historical development of Chinese “Long" 10
In ancient times 10
In the middle-age 11
In Contemporary Time 13
The cultural and historical development of western dragon 13
In ancient time 13
In medieval times 14
In neoteric times 16
The cultural symbol and content o