Abstract

The paper argues that there is no direct equivalence for Chinese numeral classifiers in English, and thus the translation of them is worth exploring. Actually there exist both translatability and untranslatability in this kind of translation, yet the border-line between them is not as clear as imagined, because both of them are only sensible when they are placed along the scale of equivalence. The task then is to achieve equivalence or rather maximum equivalence, which in this paper means that the translated version remains as close as possible to the source language in flavor by keeping close to the ideas, style and manner, and the ease of the original.

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